infair

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Noun[edit]

infair (plural infairs)

  1. Obsolete spelling of infare
    • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 64:
      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.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 11:
      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.”