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单词 feir
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feirn.

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s fere, Middle English, 1600s feare, 1500s fier.
Etymology: aphetic < affair n.
Obsolete. Scottish.
a. Appearance, demeanour, look, show; = affere (affair n. 4).
ΚΠ
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 225 Tell me his feyr and how I sall him knaw.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aiiii He wes ladlike of laitis and light of his fere.
1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 447 Quha wald behauld his countynance and feir, Mycht call hym, weill, the god of men of weir.
?a1600 Felon Sow of Rokeby in W. Scott Rokeby (1813) p. lxxxiv She raise up with a felon fare.
b. in feir of war: in martial array.
ΚΠ
1449 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1597) §25 Gif onie man..risis in feire of weir against him [the King].
c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 215 The Queen made proclamation..that all men should be at her in Fier of War.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 1231, in Wks. (1931) I. 178 Thrie scoir..Accowterit weill in feir of weir.
c. plural. Gestures, ways, ‘points’ of a person's exterior.
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a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. ix. 14 Bot he was Greik be all hys othir feris.
a1525 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Douce) l. 3003 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 302 With brokine speche and with waik feris.
a1525 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Douce) l. 2501 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 293 He kend him be his feris.
1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 28 He feinȝeit him ane fule fond in his feiris.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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