They are, first, the institution of the Foire du Pardon by the Conqueror (see p.
England still further added to the revenues of the priory and hospital by giving it the rent and privileges of the Foire de St. Gilles with half of the octroi duty.
This market is called the "hot-weather fair" (la foire chaude).
Faix, an' it's foire I shmill an' moighty sthrong, too.
The first contains his Theatre de la Foireand his few miscellaneous writings, the second his two remarkable plays Crispin and Turcaret, the third his prose fictions.
Sayin' I sthole yer match-box an' set foire to old gray's house!
Saying I sthole yer match-box an' set foireto old Gray's house!
Foire ag'in, comrades, an' thin charge the spalpanes!
The woods here terminate at a height of 5,147 feet above the sea, and the Foire de Fondeurle lies immediately above this point.
This was evidently the Foire de Fondeurle, and in it somewhere lay the glacière, if only we could make out in which direction to begin to traverse the plain.
They had determined that we should never reach the Foirede Fondeurle, and that if we did, we should find nothing there to repay our toil.
Héricart de Thury describes the peculiar structure of the ice which he found in the Glacière of the Foire de Fondeurle.
However, in spite of difficulties and opposition the Théâtre de la Foire maintained its ground.
In fact the Théâtre de la Foire was the germ that later developed into the Opéra-Comique.
When the fifth serial issue, La foire sur la place, appeared, a publisher, Ollendorff, was found willing to produce the whole romance in book form.
Indeed, he deliberately repelled the oncoming footsteps by the publication of his scathing La foire sur la place, through which he permanently forfeited the favor of the Parisian press.
It was the Foire des Oignons, observed the waiter.
Hats were sold in great numbers at the Foire des Oignons.
A popular fair, la Foire de Lendit, instituted by Dagobert, was held during centuries at the extreme end of the ancient thoroughfare.
Till the early years of the nineteenth century, one of the most popular of Paris fairs was held on the site of the old abbey, la Foire aux pains d'épices, which had its origin in an Easter week market held within the abbey precincts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
