Fand vs Fard - What's the difference?
fand | fard |
(archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
* 1791 , John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbonâs Decline and Fall
(archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
* Zachary Boyd
(archaic) To gloss over or embellish.
* 1606 , William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall
* 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord
As verbs the difference between fand and fard
is that fand is to seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour; make a shift while fard is to paint, as the face or cheeks.As a proper noun Fand
is a fairy and the wife of Manannan mac Lir and later the lover of CĂșchulainn.As a noun fard is
colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.fard
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* ** faird * ** feardNoun
(-)- Painted with French fard .
Verb
(en verb)- The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
- Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.
- Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.