infare
UK/ˈɪnfɛə/
infare noun: 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.
Noun
infare (plural infares)
- 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
- He stretched his arms above his head and drew a long sigh of pleasurable reminiscence. “We hed a right sorter sociable evenin'. I'll be bound they air all over yander at the infair now.”1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 11
Examples of infare in a sentence
- "My mother said they even had infare dinners the next day after the wedding.1941, Slave Narratives, Volume IV, Digitized edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
- Today, most weddings are followed by some sort of celebration, although not by infares, shivarees, or any similar institution.1995, W. K. McNeil, Ozark Country:
- She'd show me her doll, and talk about play-parties she'd been to, infares and dances.2000, Robert Morgan, The Mountains Won't Remember Us and Other Stories:
- In the past, drinking had been a thing for parties, or infares as they called them locally, or something before dinner to whet one's taste.2011, Howard Fast, The American:
Forms of infare
| plural | infares |
|---|---|
| alternative form | infair |
Origin of infare
From Middle English infer (“entrance”), from Old English infær (“ingress, entrance, ingang”), from Proto-Germanic *in + *farą (“a going”), corresponding to in- + fare. Related to Old English infaru (“inroad, incursion, invasion”). Compare German einführen (“to introduce”).
Questions about infare
- What does infare mean?
- Infare means 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.
- How do you use infare in a sentence?
- "My mother said they even had infare dinners the next day after the wedding.
- What part of speech is infare?
- Infare is a noun.
- How do you pronounce infare?
- Infare is pronounced /ˈɪnfɛə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of infare?
- The plural of infare is infares.
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