Fere vs Rere - What's the difference?
fere | rere |
A companion, comrade or friend.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
*:they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys .
(label) A spouse; an animal's mate.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere .
*1830 , , ‘
*:The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere , / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
(all meanings).
(Irish, legal, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)
As nouns the difference between fere and rere
is that fere is a companion, comrade or friend while rere is an archaic spelling of lang=en (all meanings).As an adjective fere
is fierce.fere
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (Northumbrian) ).Alternative forms
* pheerNoun
(en noun)Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’:
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) (lena) .Anagrams
* free * reef ----rere
English
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1678 "In the rere' of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the '''rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." ''The Triumphs of London'' (Reprinted 1869 in''Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath) * 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere , to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]"
Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne * 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in
Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33* 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere ."
Ulysses , Chapter VJames Joyce * 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office"
Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule* 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview"
S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area* 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling."
Written Answers. - Departmental BuildingsDáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996 * 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere , and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]"
Malahide planning noticesFingal Independent , 18 November 2009
Derived terms
* (l)See also
* reredorterReferences
*rereat Wordnik