单词 | fairhood |
释义 | fairhoodn. Now rare (archaic and literary in later use). Beauty, attractiveness. Cf. fairhead n. ΘΚΠ 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 ?1503 in T. Evans Old Ballads (1784) III. 208 Fresh fragrant flower of fayrehode shene, Welcum of Scotland to be quene. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 655/1 Bodely grace, as strength, fayre hood [1583 farehood]..whereof men wex proud. 1877 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 462/1 Light is the goddess of all Fairhood. 1897 H. Fuller Vivian of Virginia xii. 217 I was loth to interrupt the thoughts that played over her fairhood like a summer's cloud athwart the morning sky. 1944 P. Grainger Let. 12 Nov. in All-round Man (1994) 197 You..are a thoro art-being in your fearless love of all the fun, sin, fairhood & power that is rooted deep within us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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