fairhood

English

Etymology

fair +‎ -hood

Noun

fairhood (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) fairness; beauty
   • 1897, Hulbert Fuller, Vivian of Virginia: Being the Memoirs of Our First Rebellion, page 217:

     I was loth to interrupt the thoughts that played over her fairhood like a summer's cloud athwart the morning sky.

   • 1918, John Duncan Quackenbos, Magnhild: A Tale of Psychic Love, page 104:

     The tuneful cricket in the latter math
     Sings of her fairhood to the passing breeze.