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homefare en · NOUN

Etymology

From home + fare.

Meanings

  1. (poetic, uncountable) Homecoming; one's journey or arrival home.
    • Up then, and try thee in playing, and scatter the griefs from thy soul, For not long shalt thou lack thy homefare, since even now did they roll Thy ship adown to the water, and her folk are bound for the main." 1905, The athlete's garland: a collection of verse of sport and pastime - Page 165
    • They went out, a silent three from a silent company, and took the way of Seaboll. There was a track in the snow of many feet, but all setting toward Holl. The snow had fallen after Gisli's homefare, and covered his tracks of going and returning. 1919, Maurice Henry Hewlett, The outlaw:
    • Let the guest awhile be abiding, though he long for his homefare sore, To tarry at least for the morrow, that the gift I may fulfil. 1912, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:

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