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infare

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɪnfɛə/Sorted aefinrStarts with IEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A celebration welcoming someone into a new home or marriage household.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • Today, most weddings are followed by some sort of celebration, although not by infares, shivarees, or any similar institution.

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