fairing
See also: faring
English
Pronunciation
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- Homophone: faring
- Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
- Hyphenation: fair‧ing
Etymology 1
From fair (“community gathering, market”). In the sense of food, because cakes and sweets were sold at fairs.
Noun
fairing (plural fairings)
- (now archaic) A gift or other souvenir bought at a fair. [from 16th c.]
- 1962, WH Auden & Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin 1970, p. 28:
- She told me she was on her way to the fair in Bolzano and assumed I was going there too. Should we meet there, I must buy her a fairing [translating Jahrmarkt].
- 1962, WH Auden & Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin 1970, p. 28:
- (now rare) A present, especially given by a lover. [from 16th c.]
- (Scotland, Ireland, now rare) Something that is deserved; one's deserts. [from 18th c.]
- A type of small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut. [from 19th c.]
- 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 2,[1]
- […] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.
- 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 2,[1]
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From fair (“to smoothen or even a surface”).
Verb
fairing
Noun
fairing (plural fairings)
- A structure on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag. [from 20th c.]
Translations
aircraft fairing
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See also
References
- “fairing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Fairing”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 29, column 1.
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