faillour (s.xiii1)

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faillour (s.xiii1)

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  FEW:  fallere *3,386b Gdf:  feleur 3,743a GdfC: TL: DEAF:  falir (faleor)  DMF: TLF: OED:  failure n.  MED: DMLBS:
foillur  

The word can be considered an early attestation of 'failure', a word that only appeared in English after the Middle Ages (17th century, see OED). The word can alternatively be interpreted as an unusual variant of folur.

s.

venir a faillour
1 to fail, come to an end
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Mult fud bone la vile, onc home ne vit meillur [...] Mais au tens que la pristrent nostre bon ancesur Esteit ja destruite et venue a foillur (var. (S: c.1400) faillour )  3442
faillance  faillif  faillir  faute  fauture  fautyse 
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faillour