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Fard vs Ferd - What's the difference?

fard | ferd |

In obsolete terms the difference between fard and ferd

is that fard is force of movement, impetus, rush, violent onset while ferd is fear.

As nouns the difference between fard and ferd

is that fard is colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint while ferd is an army, a host.

As a verb fard

is to paint, as the face or cheeks.

fard

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* ** faird * ** feard

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
  • * 1791 , John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
    • Painted with French fard .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
  • * Zachary Boyd
    • The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
  • (archaic) To gloss over or embellish.
  • * 1606 , William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall
    • Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.
  • * 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord
    • Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology at ferd. Closely cognate to Scots faird.

    Alternative forms

    * ** farde * ** ferde * (Scottish) ** faird

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Force of movement, impetus, rush, violent onset.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfill
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    ferd

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ferde, feord, furd, from (etyl) fyrd, fierd, . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An army, a host.
  • * 1330 , Robert Mannyng, Chronicle
    • With þe wille I go als felawes in ferd .
    (With thee will I go as fellows in a ferd .)
  • A military expedition.
  • * c. 1050 , The Paris Psalter
    • Þeah þu mid us ne fare on fyrd ...
    (Though thou with us not fare on a ferd ...)
  • A company, band, or group.
  • * c. 1400 ,
    • And foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght... with fyfty, in a furthe , all of fuerse vesell.
    (And four score fine ships to the fleet brought... with fifty in a ferd , all of fierce vessel.)
  • *1986 , Jack Arthur Walter Bennett, ?Douglas Gray, Middle English literature - Volume 1 - Page 89 :
    • For him a lord (British or Roman) is essentially a leader of a 'ferd' (OE fyrd); […]
    Usage notes
    * This word in its Anglo-Saxon form, (l), is used historically in a technical sense.
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)
    Related terms
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) Fear.
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