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feint (n.)
1679, from Fr.
feinte
"a feint, sham," from O.Fr.
feint,
originally fem. pp. of
feindre
(see
feign
). Borrowed c.1314 as adj., but now obsolete in that sense. The v. "to make a sham attack" is first attested 1833.
