"faerie" meaning in English

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      "word": "faeriedom"
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      "word": "faerie godmother"
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  "etymology_text": "A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in the Faerie Queene.",
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      "form": "faeries",
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      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Mythological creatures",
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        "Realm of the fays, fairyland."
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      "word": "færie"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "faërie"
    }
  ],
  "word": "faerie"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "faeriecore"
    },
    {
      "word": "faeriedom"
    },
    {
      "word": "faerie godmother"
    },
    {
      "word": "faeriekind"
    }
  ],
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      ]
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      "word": "færie"
    },
    {
      "word": "faërie"
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