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faxed star

noun

Etymology

From Middle English faxed sterre, from Old English feaxede steorra (“comet”, literally “maned star”), equivalent to faxed (“having hair, hairy”) + star, from the tail appearing as though the star had hair.

  1. inherited from feaxede steorra — “comet”
  2. inherited from faxed sterre

Definitions

  1. A comet

    A comet; meteor.

    • The difference between true and false glory is elegantly illustrated by Milton in his description of Satan, who, falling, was defigured from a star of high magnitude into a faxed star, whose meteoric flash soon fades, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for faxed star. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA