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Definition of Infare
1. n. A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house.
Definition of Infare
1. Noun. (obsolete) The act of going in; entrance. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) An entrance; entry; a way in. ¹
3. Noun. (context: Scotland US) A party or other celebration held to mark someone's entrance into a new home, ''especially'' the arrival of a bride at her new home; a wedding reception. ¹
4. Verb. (ambitransitive dialectal) To go in; enter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infare
1. a reception for newlyweds [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infare
Literary usage of Infare
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Study "The Best Short Stories": An Analysis of Edward J. O'Brien's by Blanche Colton Williams (1919)
"The Silent infare' was a real occurrence, as was the pillow episode in ' Mr.
Bolster'; and the story of ..."
2. American Educational Monthly (1872)
"The custom of ' making an infare' is fast dying out. ... The word infare," writes
Lieut. WS, " I first heard used in the sense you give it in Anderson ..."
3. The Midland by Frank Luther Mott, John Towner Frederick (1919)
"Anna had loved the melodeon. "I James Bassett, do take this woman—" No, that
wasn't it. Anna had said, "I, Anna, do take this man—" And then the infare, ..."
4. Scribners Monthly (1878)
"On the day after Roxy's wedding Colonel Bonamy made a great infare as became a
great man ... On the day of the infare, " Uncle Billy," a skillful old negro, ..."
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