faerie
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English[edit]

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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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Old French[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
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- the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays)