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"text": "⇒ Middle English: fayre fax, fare fax"
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"lang_code": "ang",
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{
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"name": "Hair",
"orig": "ang:Hair",
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"word": "ġefeaxe"
},
{
"word": "ġefeaxen"
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"english": "He had black hair, a pale face, and a small, thin nose.",
"text": "late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History\nHē hæfde blæc feax, blācne andwlitan, and medmiċele nose þynne.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Then the angel grabbed him by the hair and carried him to Babylon.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr\"\nÞā sē enġel ġelǣhte hine be þām feaxe and hine bær tō Babylōne.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Then he rode on his mule with a great army through a high wood, with hostile intention; then speedily a tree caught him by the hair, because be was long-haired, and he hanged so, and the mule ran forward from the wicked lord, and David's thanes pierced him through.",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Passion of St. Alban, Martyr\"\nHē rād ðā on his mule mid mycelre fyrde þurh ǣnne hēahne holt mid hetelīcum ġeþance; þā ġefeng hine ān trēow be ðām fexe sona forþan þe hē wæs sīdfæxede and hē swā hangode, and sē mul arn forð fram þām ārlēasan hlāford and Dauides þeġnas hine þurhðydon.",
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"word": "fæx"
},
{
"word": "fex"
}
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"ipa": "/fæ͜ɑks/"
}
],
"word": "feax"
}
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{
"word": "ġefeaxen"
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"lang_code": "ang",
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"english": "He had black hair, a pale face, and a small, thin nose.",
"text": "late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History\nHē hæfde blæc feax, blācne andwlitan, and medmiċele nose þynne.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Then the angel grabbed him by the hair and carried him to Babylon.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr\"\nÞā sē enġel ġelǣhte hine be þām feaxe and hine bær tō Babylōne.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"english": "Then he rode on his mule with a great army through a high wood, with hostile intention; then speedily a tree caught him by the hair, because be was long-haired, and he hanged so, and the mule ran forward from the wicked lord, and David's thanes pierced him through.",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Passion of St. Alban, Martyr\"\nHē rād ðā on his mule mid mycelre fyrde þurh ǣnne hēahne holt mid hetelīcum ġeþance; þā ġefeng hine ān trēow be ðām fexe sona forþan þe hē wæs sīdfæxede and hē swā hangode, and sē mul arn forð fram þām ārlēasan hlāford and Dauides þeġnas hine þurhðydon.",
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