parfay
Middle English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]parfay
- By my faith; verily.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- 'Parfay' thought he, 'fantom is in myn heed.'
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “parfay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.