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Meaning of foy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

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

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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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