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Faxed star

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Noun
  1. 1
    A comet; meteor. dialectal, rare

    "The difference between true and false glory is elegantly illustrated by Milton in his description of Satan, who, falling, was defigured from a star of high magnitude into a faxed star, whose meteoric flash soon fades, […]"

Etymology

From Middle English faxed sterre, from Old English feaxede steorra (“comet”, literally “maned star”), equivalent to faxed (“having hair, hairy”) + star, from the tail appearing as though the star had hair.

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