Obs. rare. In 6 frechure. [F. fraischeur (now fraîcheur), f. frais, fraiche fresh.] Freshness.
1599. A. Hume, in Chron. S. P., III. 388.
The breathless flocks drawes to the shade, | |
And frechure of their fald; | |
The startling nolt, as they were madde, | |
Runnes to the rivers cald. |
1647. W. Browne, trans. Polexander, I. 12. That fair and delightfull country, which in the midst of the heat of the Torrid Zone, conserves a perpetuall spring and continuall fraischeur.
1661. Dryden, On Coronation, 102.
Hither in summer-evenings you repair, | |
To taste the fraischeur of the purer air. |
[1862. Thackeray, Adv. Philip, II. vii. 163. What innocence! What fraîcheur! What a merry good-humour!]