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 FairiesFair’limb. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Fairing (A).
 
A present from a fair. The ing is a patronymic = a descendant of, come from, belonging to.   1
       
“Fairings come thus plentifully in.”
       
Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost, v. 2.
 


 FairiesFair’limb. 

 
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