Definition of "fays" []

• Plural form of fay. (noun)

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• "_fair_ or _comely_ people, a quality which they affected on all occasions; while the superstition of the Scottish was likely enough to give them a name which might propitiate the vanity for which they deemed the race remarkable; just as, in other instances, they called the fays"
• "affected on all occasions; while the superstition of the Scottish was likely enough to give them a name which might propitiate the vanity for which they deemed the race remarkable; just as, in other instances, they called the fays "men of peace," "good neighbours," and by other titles of the like import."
• "Then she cast images upon images upon him; of fairies and fays, of fawns and phantasms."