faran

Updated: May 12, 2025

Maybe I had better explain that infare meant the bride's going home to her new house, or at least her new family. This etymologically the root is the Saxon faran, to go, whence come wayfaring, faring forth and so on. All this I am setting forth not in pedantry, but because so many folk had stared blankly upon hearing the word which was to me as familiar as word could be.

Martha McCulloch-Williams - Dishes & Beverages of the Old South