infair

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A form of infare — 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.

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Meanings

nouninfair (plural infairs)

plural infairs

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of infare.

    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
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    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
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