Obs. rare. [app. ad. med.L. fretum, adapted form of the Teut. *friþu- FRITH sb., peace.] A composition, agreement.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), II. 290.
| Barons … Suld com þer he was, & with him mak þer frette, Or with his body pas tille Gascoyn als he sette. |
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., cxciii. 169. The kynges Chamburleyne kept so the kynges chambre that no man must speke with the kyng, but he had made with hym a frette for to done his nede.
