or Infair, subs. (old Scots & American colloquial).—An installation with ceremony and rejoicing; a house-warming; more particularly an entertainment given by a newly married couple on their return from the honeymoon.

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  1375.  BARBOUR, The Bruce, xvi. 340 (MSS.).

        For he thowcht to mak ane INFAR,
And to mak gud cher till his men.

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  1843.  W. T. PORTER, ed., The Big Bear of Arkansas, etc., p. 162. I hurried home to put up three shotes and some turkies to fatten for the INFARE.

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  1878.  EGGLESTON, Roxy, xxix. There could be no wedding in a Hoosier village thirty or forty years ago without an INFARE on the following day.

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