favel or favell /fāˈvəl/ (obsolete)

1. Light-brown
2. Chestnut

1. (with cap) a name for a chestnut horse, esp used proverbially to mean craftiness or cunning, from the deceitful but much-courted horse Fauvel in the 14c French poem Roman de Fauvel
2. Hence curry favell (see curry²)

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