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Fairing   Listen
noun
Fairing  n.  A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
Fairing box, a box receiving savings or small sums of money.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fairing" Quotes from Famous Books



... pressing on all-fours with this is said to have once occurred at Portsmouth. A number of sailors, alarmed by the rumoured approach of a gang while they were a-fairing, took it into their heads, so the story goes, to effect a partial exchange of clothing with their sweethearts, in the hope that the hasty shifting of garments would deceive the gang and so protect them from the press. It ...
— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson

... been fairing on his own account, and had bought a workbox as a surprise for Silla—one with looking-glass inside the lid—and this afternoon he had put some mounting and a nice ...
— One of Life's Slaves • Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie



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