"faerie" meaning in English

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      "word": "faeriedom"
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      "word": "faerie godmother"
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      "word": "faeriekind"
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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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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "fairy"
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          "ref": "1985 February 2, Tim Broadbent, “Kindred Spirits (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 10:",
          "text": "All these stories are based upon the classic structure of the faerie tale and are highly enjoyable (and, yes, they end \"happily ever after\"). But they can provide much more than that.",
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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"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Edmund Spenser",
    "The Faerie Queene"
  ],
  "word": "faerie"
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      "word": "faeriecore"
    },
    {
      "word": "faeriedom"
    },
    {
      "word": "faerie godmother"
    },
    {
      "word": "faeriekind"
    },
    {
      "word": "faerie tale"
    }
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          "ref": "1985 February 2, Tim Broadbent, “Kindred Spirits (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 10:",
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        }
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      "word": "færie"
    },
    {
      "word": "faërie"
    }
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    "Edmund Spenser",
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