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foray

fo·ray

UK/ˈfɒɹ.eɪ/ US/ˈfɔɹ.eɪ/ rare archaic
noun (2) verb (2)

noun

1.
2.

an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)

  • “scientists”

verb

1.

steal goods; take as spoils

  • “During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
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2.

Origin

From Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrier (“raider, pillager”), from Old French forrier, fourrier, a derivative of fuerre (“provender, fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *pāy- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóður (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food, forage.

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