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Fair-star

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The Princess Fair-star, in love with Prince Chery, whom she sets to obtain for her “the dancing water,” “the singing apple,” and “the green bird” (q.v.). This tale is borrowed from the fairy tales of Straparoʹla the Milanese. (1550.) Chery and Fairstar, by the Countess dʹAulnoy.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Faint
Faint Hearted
Fair (The)
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Fair (Sloe)
Fair (Statute)
Fair City
Fair Game
Fair Maid (The)
Fair-star
Fair Trade
Fair Way
Fair and Square
Fair fall you
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Fairing (A)
Fairlimb
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