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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fay/feɪ/

▶noun literary a fairy.

– origin ME: from OFr. fae, faie, from L. fata ‘the Fates’, pl. of fatum (see fate); cf. fairy.

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