Meaning of fere | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A companion, comrade or friend.
   dialectal, obsolete
2. A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.”

“And Cambel tooke Cambrina to his fere.”

“The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere, / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.”

“What if my Duncan be the youth whom his wicked brother hurled into the ravine, come⟳ again in a new body, to live⟳ out his life on the earth, cut⟳ short by his brother’s hatred? If so, his persecution of you, and of your mother for your sake, is easy to understand⟳. And if so, you will never be able to rest⟳ till you find⟳ your fere, wherever she may have⟳ been born on the face⟳ of the earth.”

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