haire

haire (countable and uncountable, plural haires)

1. Obsolete spelling of hair

Inherited from Middle French haire, from Old French haire, from Frankish *hārijā, related to English hair.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/

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• Homophones: haires, hère, hères, r (general), air, aire, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers (unaspirated)

haire f (plural haires)

1. hairshirt

• hairement

• “haire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

haire

1. h-prothesized form of aire

haire

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)
2. haircloth
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Second Nun's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:

     She, ful devout and humble in hir corage, / Under hir robe of gold, that sat ful faire, / Hadde next hir flessh yclad hir in an haire.