Meanings
foy1
plural foys
- countableobsoleterareuncountableFaith, allegiance.
He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC - countableobsoleteuncountableA feast given by one about to leave a place.
To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.
1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661, Echo Library, page 124
Foy2
plural Foys
- A surname.
- obsoleteSynonym of Sainte-Foy, various places, especially Sainte-Foy-la-Grande.
FOY, or St Foy, a town in Guienne, in France, thirty-two miles eaſt of Bourdeaux; it is ſituated under the meridian of London, in 44°, 50′, N. lat.
1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 630Synonyms: Sainte-Foy, various places
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Sainte-Foy, various places, especially Sainte-Foy-la-Grande.
Origin
foy · noun
- Middle Frenchfoy
- Englishfoy
From Middle French foy. Doublet of faith.
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- Middle Frenchfoy“faith”
- EnglishFoy
From Middle French foy (“faith”) and placenames such as Sainte-Foy, variously from sainte foy (“holy faith”) and from the French name of St. Faith.
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Rhymes with foy
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