ˈfasure Obs.
Also fasor, fassure.
[? a. AF. faisure, f. faire to make.]
Fashion, form.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 431 That freles fleȝe of hyr fasor. Ibid. 1083 So ferly þer-of watz þe fasure [printed falure]. c 1400 Destr. Troy 3956 Polidamas..[was a] ffaire man of fassure [MS. faffure] & of fyn strenght. [But is faffure a form of favour?] |