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Definition of Fainites
1. Interjection. (U.K.) (non-gloss definition A call for truce used in children's games.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fainites
1. a plea for a truce [interj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fainites
Literary usage of Fainites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic by Harold Bayley (1920)
"which among children is equivalent to " fainites " : the sign of truce or fainites
is to cross the two fore-fingers into the form of the treus or cross. ..."
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