Middle English Dictionary Entry
Fāre n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | Fāre n.(2) Also Farde. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The Strait (of Messina).
Associated quotations
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.151 : A water þat closed it in, þat flum was de la fare [L floum de la Fare].
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)35/32 : Betwene Cycile & Itaylle þere is not but a lytill arm of the see þat men clepen the Farde of Mescyne [Eg: þe whilk es called Fare; F le far de Messine].