faitour

Related to faitour: accumulated, gratulate, depopulated

faitour

(ˈfeɪtə) or

faitor

obsolete an impostor

[C14: from Anglo-French: cheat, from Old French faitor, from Latin: factor]

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fai•tour

(ˈfeɪ tər)

n. Archaic.

impostor; fake.

[1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French: impostor, Old French faitor perpetrator, literally, doer, maker < Latin factor. See factor]

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Seeing and hearing; looking and listening

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