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faerie

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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.

noun faeries · færie · faërie

  1. archaic, countable, uncountable Archaic spelling of fairy 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. countable, uncountable Realm of the fays, fairyland.

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@misc{faerie_2026,
  title = {faerie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/faerie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}