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fairhood

fairhood noun: fairness; beauty.

Noun

fairhood (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) fairness; beauty
    • I was loth to interrupt the thoughts that played over her fairhood like a summer's cloud athwart the morning sky.1897, Hulbert Fuller, Vivian of Virginia: Being the Memoirs of Our First Rebellion, page 217
    • The tuneful cricket in the latter math
      Sings of her fairhood to the passing breeze.1918, John Duncan Quackenbos, Magnhild: A Tale of Psychic Love, page 104

Origin of fairhood

From fair + -hood.

Questions about fairhood

What does fairhood mean?
Fairhood means fairness; beauty.
What part of speech is fairhood?
Fairhood is a noun.

Words near fairhood in the dictionary

  1. Fairhaven
  2. Fairhead
  3. fairheaded
  4. Fairheads
  5. Fairholme
  6. fairhood
  7. Fairhurst
  8. Fairhursts
  9. fairie
  10. fairies
  11. fairies' butter

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