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infair

infair is the obsolete spelling of infare.

Meaning of infare

Noun

infare (plural infares)

  1. (Scotland, US) A party or other celebration held to mark someone's entrance into a new home, especially the arrival of a bride at her new home; a wedding reception.
    • At our next meeting we set the day for our wedding; and I went to my father's, and made arrangements for an infair, and returned to ask her parents for her.1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 64

Forms of infair

pluralinfairs

Questions about infair

What is infair the obsolete spelling of?
Infair is the obsolete spelling of infare.

Words near infair in the dictionary

  1. inezia
  2. INF
  3. inf.
  4. infacility
  5. infact
  6. infair
  7. infairness
  8. infairs
  9. infall
  10. infallen
  11. infaller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infair (page history and authors); infare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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