façaña

Old Spanish

Noun

façaña f

1. Alternative form of fazaña
   • c. 1250, anonymous, Poema de Fernán González p. 274, (ed. by Itzíar López Guil, 2001, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva):

     Quando llegó el conde a su buena conpaña
     falló a sus vassallos todos con fuerte saña,
     maltrayanle tanto que era grand façaña.

     When the count arrived back at his good companions,
     he found all his vassals strongly against him,
     they were treating him so badly that it was a feat.