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renfaire 

Short for "Renaissance faire."

A festival celebrating and reenacting the romance and glory of the Renaissance.

Performers portray fun, entertaining, and (usually) historically accurate characters in an improv environment for the amusement of patrons.

Stage acts provide a variety of entertaining spectacles, including live music, juggling, and stage combat.

Artisans and shopkeepers sell their wares, usually related to the Renaissance in some way i.e. period weaponry, period clothing (known in the renfaire circuit as "garb"), handmade soaps, stained glass, feast gear, etc.

Kitchens and carts sell Renaissance-themed foods and beverages.
Oh, you're going to a renfaire? I want to go too!
renfaire by MacKay September 5, 2008
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renfield 

A human enabler, assistant, patsy or slave to a psychopath. Just as Milo Renfield is a slave to the pschopath Dracula from the novel.
Makes me wonder who's more evil, that psychopath or her Renfield. She's just doing what's natural for her, but he ought to know better.
renfield by Tiaran MacLosoff December 19, 2009

Brad Renfro 

An absurdly underrated actor born 1982, who died of a drug overdose in 2008. Acted in 21 films, with his debut at the lead character in 1994's "The Client", a thriller based on the Grisham novel, when he was eleven years old. It won him numerous awards, and many other incredible performances in other movies. Notably "The Cure", "Bully", "Apt Pupil". He also starred alongside Jonathon Taylor Thomas and Rachel Leigh Cook in the Disney adaptation of "Tom and Huck".

Though "Huck", which he filmed at twelve, was probably his least ambitious work, it is one of his most well-known and brought delight to many teenage girls in the mid-90's. CNN did some stories on the movie. The most notable one involved Brad getting dirt rubbed onto the soles of his feet, and laughing hysterically.He stated in one interview that he hated to be barefoot because the grass tickled his feet too badly.

Brad had a rough beginning. Both is parents were drug addicts, he suffered some physical abuse, and was given the role of in "The Client", because the producers wanted a tougher child. He was recommended by a police officer who saw him in a fifth-grade D.A.R.E production, in which he played a crack dealer.

Brad was extraordinary beautiful, and, bizarrely enough, this caused him a lot of discomfort. He once said that he was flattered by the attention, but that he didn't think of himself that way. He was arrested at sixteen for possession of cocaine and marijuana, and he sank further into the perils of drug addiction. He also became an alcoholic, and spent many years working on his sobriety.

His best movie, in my opinion, is the little-known 1995 film, "The Cure". It stars him and Joseph Mazzello. Mazzello is afflicted the HIV virus and is ostracized in his community. Renfro plays a lonely latchkey bully who eventually befriends the boy. After reading in a tabloid that a doctor in New Orleans found the cure in a bayou, the two decide to travel down the Mississippi river in search of the cure.

There is a lot of swearing, a lot of laughing, and you'll need a box of tissues at the end. However, the film is bizarrely unsentimental. It is honest, simple, and direct. It is one of the most optimistic films of the nineties.
Brad Renfro was one of the most incredibly gifted actors to come along. He was a latter-day James Dean.

renfrew three-way

It's when you take a picture of a celebrity from a magazine and tape it to the back of your partner's head during sex. Preferably doggy style
The wife and I had a Renfrew three-way last night. I taped Sidney Crosbys picture to the back of her head.
renfrew three-way by Gooey Lewy September 16, 2017

Renfe minute 

A Renfe Minute is the amount of time you wait for a (Renfe) train in Spain to arrive as the digital display counts down some made-up number.
I arrived at the station and the display said that the train was only a minute away. It said that for the next 7 minutes.

It's called a Renfe minute and that's why I hate public transport, you never know when the train will actually arrive.
Renfe minute by No Hemingway February 18, 2020
The last name of a person who just doesn't give a fuck
Joe is a, "Renfrow", he just doesn't give a fuck.
Renfrow by badassrenfrow December 31, 2009