faerie
See also: færie
English
Alternative forms
- færie (archaic, nonstandard)
Etymology
From Old French faerie; re-introduced into English in deliberately archaising spelling in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene.
Noun
faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)
References
- Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
faerie f
- the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays)
Derived terms
- French: féerie, féérie (post-1990 spelling)
- → Middle English: fairye(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in fairye#Middle English)