homefare

homefare

English

Etymology

From home +‎ fare.

Noun

homefare (uncountable)

1. Homecoming; one's journey or arrival home.
   • 1905, The athlete's garland: a collection of verse of sport and pastime - Page 165:

     Up then, and try thee in playing, and scatter the griefs from thy soul, For not long shalt thou lack thy homefare, since even now did they roll Thy ship adown to the water, and her folk are bound for the main."

   • 1912, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:

     Let the guest awhile be abiding, though he long for his homefare sore, To tarry at least for the morrow, that the gift I may fulfil.

   • 1919, Maurice Henry Hewlett, The outlaw:

     They went out, a silent three from a silent company, and took the way of Seaboll. There was a track in the snow of many feet, but all setting toward Holl. The snow had fallen after Gisli's homefare, and covered his tracks of going and returning.