Lexicographical Neighbors of Fauchon
Literary usage of Fauchon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Romans of Partenay, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as the Tale of Melusine by Couldrette, Walter William Skeat (1866)
"Then he in hand toke hys fauchon of stile ... 3050 hys fauchon he made to fall
the hand fro, That neuer After ned had non ther-to; ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"[ME fauchon, P. Plowman, C. xvii. 169; directly from F. fauchon, ... ^f The word
may have been really taken from the F. fauchon, and afterwards altered to ..."
3. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1857)
"as " Lay down thy fauchon than the fro, Thou shalt be ... This fauchon most y
with me bere, 230 My frendes ..."
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