faerie
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Etymology edit
A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in the Faerie Queene.
Noun edit
faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
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Noun edit
faerie f
- the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays)