Obs. [f. FAIR a. + -SHIP.] a. Fairness, beauty. b. The personality of a ‘fair lady.’ Cf. BEAUTYSHIP, ladyship.
c. 1320. Cast. Love, 688. Ther may no man here feyrship wyte.
a. 1400. Vernon Poems, 444.
| The swete face of his Lorde there … | |
| In his feyreship he may him showen … | |
| Of hevyn he may i-se the wydnes, | |
| The feyreshepe and the heynes. |
1646. T. Hall, Poems, 11.
| What swarms of sonnets rise? how every wit | |
| Capers on such an accident, to fit | |
| Words to her faireships grief? |
