faerie
See also: færie
English

The Faerie Queene, as depicted in 1788.
Alternative forms
- færie (archaic, nonstandard)
Etymology
From Old French faerie; re-introduced into English in deliberately archaising spelling in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene.
Noun
faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)
References
- Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- faierie
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