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单词 fairhead
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fairheadn.

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α. Middle English faigered, Middle English faired, Middle English fairede, Middle English fairehed, Middle English fairehede, Middle English fairhed, Middle English fairhede, Middle English fairhede, Middle English fairheed, Middle English fairhid, Middle English fayred, Middle English fayrehedde, Middle English fayrehede, Middle English fayrhed, Middle English fayrhede, Middle English feirehede, Middle English feirhed, Middle English feirhede, Middle English–1500s fayrehed, Middle English–1500s fayrhed, 1500s ffayrehed; Scottish pre-1700 fairhed, pre-1700 fairhede, pre-1700 fairheid, pre-1700 farehed, pre-1700 farehede, pre-1700 farhed, pre-1700 fayrehede, pre-1700 fayrhed.

β. southern Middle English uayrhede, Middle English vairhede.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fair adj., -head suffix.
Etymology: < fair adj. + -head suffix. Compare fairhood n. and earlier fairness n.
Obsolete (Scottish in later use).
Beauty, attractiveness.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun]
wlitec825
faireOE
fairnessOE
fairlecc1225
fairheadc1300
fairshipc1300
forma1382
clearnessa1400
beautyc1405
delicacya1450
pulchritudea1460
speciositya1470
lovelinessa1500
beautifulnessc1500
formosityc1500
fairhood?1503
bewtynes?c1510
decorea1513
venusty1559
decorum1604
bellitude1623
beauteousnessa1631
loveliheada1637
decor1656
luculency1656
Venus1657
coquetry1794
beautyhood1832
glamour1840
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 83 Muchel was his fairhede [Laud fayrhede; a1350 Harl. feyrhade; rhyme made], for ihesu crist him makede.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2666 He was guð, Wið faigered and strengthe kuð.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2515 Þe king..bi huld hire vairhede.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 16 Liȝtbere þe angel vor his greate uayrhede an his greate wyt, wolde by aboue þe oþre angeles.
1494 W. Hilton Scala Perfeccionis (de Worde) ii. xlvi. sig. tiiiv The fairhede [1533 fayrnes] of angels.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) Prol. 3 In thaim [sc. the Psalms] is so mykill fayrhed of vnderstandynge.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 453 in Shorter Poems (1967) 36 Hir bewtye schane castand so gret a glance All farehed [1579 Edinb. fairheid] it opprest.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 19v Thair was the flour of fairheid.
a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) vi. i. f. 185 Nathalok..had twa dochteris plesand of persoun and farehede.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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