infare means 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. It carries an Arena rating of 1603, earned across 42 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, infare ranks #2,573 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words, #2,670 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #2,697 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #3,180 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words.
infare is pronounced /ˈɪnfɛə/.
Why “infare” is a great word
INFARE — [Noun] A welcoming celebration, historically a wedding reception, held to mark the entrance of a newly married couple into their new home. From Middle English infer ("entrance"), from Old English infær ("ingress, entrance"), from in- ("in") + fær ("journey, way"), corresponding to in- + fare. Unlike a "housewarming," which blesses any new dwelling, or the "wedding" itself, which solemnizes the union, an infare consecrates the specific, physical threshold-crossing into shared domestic life. It is the creak of a laden wagon at the homestead's gate, the scent of hearth-smoke on a traveling cloak, and the first shared meal among new rafters—a public inauguration of a private journey, acknowledging the home not as a destination, but as a voyage just begun.
Etymology
From Middle English infer (“entrance”), from Old English infær (“ingress, entrance, ingang”), from Proto-Germanic *in + *farą (“a going”), corresponding to in- + fare. Related to Old English infaru (“inroad, incursion, invasion”). Compare German einführen (“to introduce”).
noun
- 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.e.g.“At our next meeting we set the day for our wedding; and I went to my father's, and made arrangements for an infair, and returned to ask her parents for her.” — 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 64:
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