Noun: faitour
| Singular | faitour |
| Plural | faitours |
Sample Sentences
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Allas sayd kynge Lot I am ashamed / for by my defaute ther is many a worshipful man slayne / for and we had ben to gyders there hadde ben none hooste vnder the heuen that had ben abel for to haue matched with vs / This fayter with his prophecye hath mocked me (Alas, said King Lot, I am ashamed, for through my absence many a distinguished man has been slain, for if we had been together there would have been no host under heaven that could have matched us; this faitour has mocked me with his prophecy.) [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:]
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Into new woes vnweeting I was cast, / By this false faytor[…]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Quick, now, little faitour. What do you want to know about Gondal? [1969, Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother:]
Nouns inflected like faitour
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English faytour, from Anglo-Norman faitour (cognate with Old French faitor (“doer, maker”), from Latin factor, factōrem, from facere (“do, make”). See: Latin Nouns '
factor'.