Meaning of foy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Faith, allegiance.
   countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
3. Synonym of Sainte-Foy, various places, especially Sainte-Foy-la-Grande.
   obsolete
4. A feast given by one about to leave a place.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes […]”

“To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.”

“FOY, or St Foy, a town in Guienne, in France, thirty-two miles eaſt of Bourdeaux; it is ſituated under the meridian of London, in 44°, 50′, N. lat.”

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