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faraud

/fa.ʁo/

adjective/fa.ʁo/

smug or proud of one's appearance or clothing

Related: farauderie

Borrowed (1725) from Spanish faraute “messenger, herald, prologue presenter”, an orthographic variant of haraute (15th c.), from Old French heraut, hiraut (modern héraut) from Frankish *heriwald, evolution of Proto-Germanic *harjawaldaz, a compound consisting of Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”) + *h₂welh₁- (“to rule”). Compare Walter, which has these elements reversed.