faxed
adj/fækst/
Etymology From Middle English *faxed, from Old English feaxed, ġefeaxed (“haired; having hair”), from Old English feax (“hair”). More at fax.
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Obsolete Having a head of hair; hairy.
- A comet is a ‘faxed’ star, that is, a hairy, a tailed star. But ‘faxed’ got corrupted into ‘fixed’ star during the seventeenth century.1859, The London review: Volume 11
- Derived terms
- faxed star