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fairweather friend en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of fair-weather friend.
    • She did not even attempt to make a reply, or to ask her fairweather friend to remain; but suffered her to leave the room and the house without a word. 1844, T[imothy] S[hay] Arthur, chapter VI, in Cecilia Howard: Or, The Young Lady who had Finished Her Education, New York, N.Y.: John Allen, 139 Nassau Street, →OCLC, page 49:

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