Fairing

Quick meaning: Fairing is a noun meaning (now archaic) A gift or other souvenir bought at a fair.

Meaning

(now archaic) A gift or other souvenir bought at a fair.

More Meanings

1. (now rare) A present, especially given by a lover.
2. (Scotland, Ireland, now rare) Something that is deserved; one's deserts.
3. A type of small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut.
4. present participle and gerund of fair
5. A covering on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that streamlines it (i.e., produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag).

Example Sentences

The fairing over the driving motion of this engine, and of the 4-6-2s, was removed subsequently, to give greater accessibility to the working parts.

To improve the appearance of the stepped roof a glass-fibre fairing, moulded to the corner radius, extends for the full length between the two cabs.

She told me she was on her way to the fair in Bolzano and assumed I was going there too. Should we meet there, I must buy her a fairing [translating Jahrmarkt].

[…] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.

Word Forms

• fairings

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