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Webster 1913 Edition


Faitour

Fai′tour

,
Noun.
[OF.
faitor
a doer, L.
factor
. See
Factor
.]
A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.
[Obs.]
Lo!
faitour
, there thy meed unto thee take.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Faitour

FA'ITOUR

,
Noun.
[L. factor.] An evildoer; a scoundrel; a mean fellow. Obs.

Definition 2024


faitour

faitour

English

Alternative forms

  • faytor [14th-17th c.]
  • fayter [15th-16th c.]

Noun

faitour (plural faitours)

  1. (archaic) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter x, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
      Allas sayd kynge Lot I am ashamed / for by my defaute ther is many a worshipful man slayne / for and we had ben to gyders there hadde ben none hooste vnder the heuen that had ben abel for to haue matched with vs / This fayter with his prophecye hath mocked me
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I.iv:
      Into new woes vnweeting I was cast, / By this false faytor [].
    • 1969, Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother:
      Quick, now, little faitour. What do you want to know about Gondal?

Old French

Noun

faitour m (oblique plural faitours, nominative singular faitours, nominative plural faitour)

  1. a layabout (one who does nothing)

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