fairhood
English
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- (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.