fawe

Middle English

Etymology 1

Compare fain.

Adjective

fawe

  1. fain; glad; delighted
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales:
      I governed hem so wel after my lawe
      That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
      To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre
      I governed them so well by my rules that each was blissful and happy to bring me gay things from the fair

References
  • fawe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology 2

From Old English fāh.

Adjective

fawe

  1. Alternative form of fou (“multicolored”)
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