faerie

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.

noun

  1. Archaic spelling of fairy.
  2. Realm of the fays, fairyland.

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