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Mudroom vs Foy - What's the difference?

mudroom | foy |

As nouns the difference between mudroom and foy

is that mudroom is a room used to act as a barrier between outdoors and indoors while foy is faith, allegiance.

mudroom

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A room used to act as a barrier between outdoors and indoors.
  • We made sure to hang our wet clothes on the hook in the mudroom when we came in from the snow.

    Alternative forms

    * mud room

    foy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
  • * , II.x:
  • He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes.
  • (obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
  • * 1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661 , 2006, Echo Library, page 124,
  • To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy , he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.
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