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Fyrd vs Fard - What's the difference?

fyrd | fard |

As nouns the difference between fyrd and fard

is that fyrd is in early anglo-saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition while fard is a journey, a trip.

fyrd

English

(wikipedia fyrd)

Noun

(en noun)
  • In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
  • * Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon Social Organisation:
  • *Below the king were the eoldermen, the ruling nobility. The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the ''fyrd'' and leading its forces in the field.
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    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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