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Renaissance Faire Word of the Week

Renaissance Faire Word of the Week

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One word, a few minutes, every Tuesday. Renaissance Faire Word of the Week comes from the Faire Tidings Crier, the free weekly newsletter on Substack for the US Renaissance faire circuit. Each episode takes one word you might hear at a Renaissance faire, a Renaissance festival or a Shakespeare stage, and explains where it came from, how its meaning changed, and the line where Shakespeare put it to work. Then you get a way to use it at the faire, whether you are a first-time faire-goer, a longtime regular, a vendor at the booth or a performer on the lanes. Every word is checked against the Folger Shakespeare Library and Merriam-Webster before it airs. We cite our sources in each episode's notes, and we do not invent quotes or history. The full story behind each word, verified faire dates, vendor and performer stories, and a new issue every Thursday live in the Faire Tidings Crier. Subscribe free at fairetidingscrier.substack.com. Episodes are narrated with an AI voice. Scripts are written and fact-checked by the Faire Tidings Crier. Tidings travel.Copyright 2026 Faire Tidings Crier 世界 語学学習
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  • Trencher: The Wooden Plate Shakespeare Gave a Grumbling Servant | Renaissance Faire Word of the Week

    Trencher: The Wooden Plate Shakespeare Gave a Grumbling Servant | Renaissance Faire Word of the Week
    2026/10/27

    This week's word is a plate. A wooden one.

    A trencher is a wooden platter for serving food. Merriam-Webster traces it to the Middle English trenchour, meaning a knife or a serving platter, from an Anglo-French word meaning to cut. In Romeo and Juliet, the First Servingman rushes to clear the hall before the Capulets' feast and grumbles about a missing coworker: "Where's Potpan that he helps not to take away? He shift a trencher? He scrape a trencher?" And in Timon of Athens, Timon calls the flatterers who ate at his table "trencher-friends."

    Next time someone eats every free sample at your booth, you know the word. Say it kindly.

    Read the full story in the Faire Tidings Crier, Issue 25, What Makes a Faire Booth Work: https://fairetidingscrier.substack.com/p/what-makes-a-faire-booth-work?utm_source=faire-tidings-crier&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=wotw-podcast

    Subscribe free: https://fairetidingscrier.substack.com/subscribe?utm_source=faire-tidings-crier&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=wotw-podcast

    Watch the video version on Substack: https://fairetidingscrier.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-trencher?utm_source=faire-tidings-crier&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=wotw-podcast

    All episodes: https://renaissance-faire-word.captivate.fm

    Sources:

    Folger Shakespeare Library, Romeo and Juliet 1.5: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/romeo-and-juliet/read/1/5/?utm_source=faire-tidings-crier

    Folger Shakespeare Library, Timon of Athens 3.6: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/timon-of-athens/read/3/6/?utm_source=faire-tidings-crier

    Merriam-Webster, "trencher": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trencher?utm_source=faire-tidings-crier

    Narrated with an AI voice. Written and fact-checked by the Faire Tidings Crier. Tidings travel.
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  • Chapman: The Old Job Title Hiding Inside "Cheap"

    Chapman: The Old Job Title Hiding Inside "Cheap"
    2026/10/20

    The word cheap is hiding inside an old job title.

    A chapman is a merchant or trader, and in Britain a peddler. The word comes from Old English ceap, meaning trade, and that same root gave us cheap. Shakespeare gives it to the Princess in Love's Labor's Lost, who is tired of flattery: "Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, / Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues."

    Next time a friend haggles you down at the booth: "I am a chapman, not a cheap man."

    Read the full story in the Faire Tidings Crier on Substack, Issue 24, What the Price Tag Carries: fairetidingscrier.substack.com/p/what-the-price-tag-carries

    Subscribe free to the Faire Tidings Crier: fairetidingscrier.substack.com/subscribe

    Watch the video version on Substack: fairetidingscrier.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-chapman

    All episodes and the show website: renaissance-faire-word.captivate.fm

    Renaissance Faire Word of the Week is a production of the Faire Tidings Crier, the free weekly newsletter for the US Renaissance faire circuit.

    Sources

    Folger Shakespeare Library, Love's Labor's Lost 2.1: folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/loves-labors-lost/read/2/1

    Merriam-Webster, "chapman": merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chapman

    Merriam-Webster, "cheap": merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheap

    Narrated with an AI voice. Written and fact-checked by the Faire Tidings Crier. Tidings travel.
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