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Faerie

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of fairy. alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable

    "All these stories are based upon the classic structure of the faerie tale and are highly enjoyable (and, yes, they end "happily ever after"). But they can provide much more than that."

  2. 2
    the enchanted realm of fairies wordnet
  3. 3
    Realm of the fays, fairyland. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers wordnet

Etymology

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.

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