fawe

Middle English

Etymology 1

Compare fain.

Adjective

fawe

1. fain; glad; delighted
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales:

     I governed hem so wel after my lawe
     That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
     To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre

     I governed them so well by my rules that each was blissful and happy to bring me gay things from the fair

References

• “fawe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

From Old English fāh.

Adjective

fawe

1. Alternative form of fou (“multicolored”)