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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