foy

noun — 2 senses

foy

noun

Etymology From Middle French foy. Doublet of faith.

1

Obsolete, Rare Faith, 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:

2

Obsolete A 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:

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