fairing

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈfɛɹɪŋ/

Noun

archaic Ireland Scotland

(now archaic) A gift or other souvenir bought at a fair. / (now rare) A present, especially given by a lover. / (Scotland, Ireland, now rare) Something that is deserved; one's deserts.

Japanese Meaning

（古い意味）見本市などで購入されるお土産や記念品 / （現在は稀な意味）恋人などから贈られる贈り物 / （スコットランド、アイルランドの古い用法）当然の報い、与えるべき相応のもの

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She proudly displayed the delicate fairing she had purchased at the summer fair.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は夏の縁日で買った繊細なお土産を誇らしげに飾った。

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Sense（1）

(now archaic) A gift or other souvenir bought at a fair.

She told me she was on her way to the fair in Bolzano and assumed I was going there too. Should we meet there, I must buy her a fairing [translating Jahrmarkt].

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Sense（2）

(now rare) A present, especially given by a lover.

Sense（3）

(Scotland, Ireland, now rare) Something that is deserved; one's deserts.

Sense（4）

A type of small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut.

[…] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.

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fairings

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