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faerie

fae·rie

uncommon archaic

noun

1.

small, human in form, playful, having magical powers

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2.

the enchanted realm of fairies

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • faerie godmother
  • faerie tale

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