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ˈfair-ˈmaid
1. = fumade.
1848C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 54 The Italians call them [salted pilchards] fumados..from a corruption of this word they are universally called, in Cornwall, ‘fair-maids’. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 128 Quarter Hogsheads of Fairmaids.
2. In various names of plants. fair maid(s of February, the Snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis; fair maids of France, of Kent [= Fr. belle-pucelle], a double-flowered variety of Crowfoot, Ranunculus aconitiflorus.
1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 331 Common Snowdrop. Fair Maids of February. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict. s.v. Fair, Fair Maid of France, the Ranunculus aconitifolius of Linnæus, a perennial. 1863Prior Plant-n., Fair Maids of February, white flowers that blossom about the 2nd of that month. Ibid., Fair Maids of France. 1878–86Britten & Holland Plant-n., Fair Maids of Kent. |