Infare

The infare dinners were just for the families of the bride and groom, and the bride had a special dress for that occasion that she called her infare dress. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

She can not manage the "infare" unless Susan comes home and helps. ❋ Ida Husted Harper (1891)

"infare," as the wedding dinner was called, upon the table, and we stood about it to eat amid shouts and laughter and an exchange of wit as good natured as it was horrifying to bridal ears. ❋ Corra Harris (1902)

The dreams were supposed to be truly related next day at the infare -- but I question if they always were. ❋ Martha McCulloch-Williams (N/A)

Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. ❋ Martha McCulloch-Williams (N/A)

Next day atter de weddin 'day, Marse Will had de infare at his house and I knows I ain't never been whar so much good to eat was sot out in one place as dey had dat day. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Maybe I had better explain that infare meant the bride's going home -- to her new house, or at least her new family. ❋ Martha McCulloch-Williams (N/A)

A wedding made imperative an infare -- that is to say, if the high contracting parties had parental approval. ❋ Martha McCulloch-Williams (N/A)

While the bride was changing to her infare dress, older hands quickly took down the bedsteads, tied up the flock ticks and shuck ticks in coverlids and quilts, shoved them back into the corners so as to make room for the frolic and dancing. ❋ Jean Thomas (1945)

They stepped the tune to the singing of a ballad, nor did they tire though the infare wedding lasted all of three days and nights. ❋ Jean Thomas (1945)

The bride's mother sought to outdo the groom's parent in preparing a feast for the gathering; the next day, according to their age-old custom, the celebration of the infare would continue at the home of his folks. ❋ Jean Thomas (1945)

Even when the dulcimer, that primitive three-stringed instrument, could not be had, mountain folk in the raggeds of Old Virginia were not at a loss for music with which to make merry at the infare wedding. ❋ Jean Thomas (1945)

When the elder had spoken the word which made them one, the bride with her waiter hurried out to another room, if there was such, if not she climbed the wall ladder to the loft and there in the low-roofed bedroom she changed her wedding frock for her infare dress -- the second day dress. ❋ Jean Thomas (1945)

Christ's rood made she on breastbone and him drew that he would rathe infare under her thatch. ❋ James Joyce (1911)

O'Keefe was riding on that moonlit night at the gallop of bold dreams, and in his mind were visions of wedding and infare. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)

She can not manage the “infare” unless Susan comes home and helps. ❋ Harper, Ida H (1899)

I wish you could have been here to drive out to the infare at her pa's house two nights after the weddin '. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

They met the next day at the home of Reuben Grigsby, Sr., and held a double infare, to which most of the county was invited, with the exception of the Lincolns. ❋ Unknown (1868)

Christ’s rood made she on breastbone and him drew that he would rathe infare under her thatch. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"My mother said they even had infare dinners the next day after the wedding. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)