Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
farthing . - noun Painting the face; the use of cosmetics.
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- verb Present participle of
fard .
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Examples
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Last century, too, when life was lived by candle-light, and ethics was but etiquette, and even art a question of punctilio, women, we know, gave the best hours of the day to the crafty farding of their faces and the towering of their coiffures.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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I was so amused that I laughed in the rascal's face, which doubled his rage, and he reiterated his mortal defiance; adding, -- ` I was in London last year; they charge me twelve -- fourteen shillings for my dinner at coffee-house, but I too much gentlemans to ask them take off one farding.
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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Oh, cruel was the water as bore my love from Mary, And cruel was the fair wind as wouldn't blow contrary; And cruel was the captain, his boatswain, and his men, As didn't care a farding if we never meet again.
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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Today, the New York Times unravels a skein of stories that surfaced over the past week, most of them covered here at Air America, both by our hosts -- shout out to Lionel's piggy farding day -- and on the Web.
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Today, the New York Times unravels a skein of stories that surfaced over the past week, all of them covered here at Air America, both by our hosts -- shout out to Lionel's piggy farding day -- and on the Web.
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Today, the New York Times unravels a skein of stories that surfaced over the past week, all of them covered here at Air America, both by our hosts -- shout out to Lionel's piggy farding day -- and on the Web.
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a most discrit family, payin to the last farding the Cornal's legacy, and most seevil, and well bred to us.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809
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"Wot sort o 'copper?" demanded the urchin, "there's three sorts of 'em, you know, in this 'ere kingdom -- which appears to be a queendom at present -- there's a farding and a ha'penny and a penny.
Rivers of Ice 1859
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You send for me, and tell me you vish to pay back de monish directly; I never refuse monish -- if you wish to pay, I will take, but I will not take von farding less dan de monish on de bond. "
Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820
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You send for me, and tell me you vish to pay back de monish directly; I never refuse monish -- if you wish to pay, I will take, but I will not take von farding less dan de monish on de bond. "
Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820
defenestration commented on the word farding
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November 15, 2008
john commented on the word farding
“You can't fard while driving in the District. No, it's not a typo, that's fard with a "d." It's a word derived from the French and means to apply make-up.�?
wtopnews.com, Farding While Driving; More Dangerous than Cell Phones?, January 16, 2006
November 15, 2008
frindley commented on the word farding
Here's the wtopnews link.
November 15, 2008