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fa⋅er⋅ie

  [fey-uh-ree, fair-ee]
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–noun
1. the imaginary land of the fairies; fairyland.
2. Archaic. a fairy.
–adjective
3. fairy.
Also, faery.

Origin:
1580–90; sp. var. of fairy
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fa·er·ie also fa·er·y   (fā'ə-rē, fâr'ē)   
n.   pl. fa·er·ies
  1. A tiny, mischievous, imaginary being; a fairy.
  2. The land or realm of the fairies.

[Middle English faierie, fairie; see fairy.]
fa'er·ie, fa'er·y adj.
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faerie 
1590, var. of fairy (q.v.), probably existing in M.E., but first attested in Spenser's "Faery Queene," where he used it in his own sense, to mean "the realm of fairies," in a dignified and poetic sense divorced from the common folk tales.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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