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banshee

bans·hee

UK/bænˈʃiː/ US/ˈbænʃiː/ uncommon

noun

1.

Origin

Borrowed from Irish bean sí, from Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). The term banshee entered English in 1771.

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