Etymology

Fairclough

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Today it means: A surname from Middle English. Full definition →

Middle English fayr
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The story

  1. Middle English · derived fromfayr“fair, beautiful”
  2. English todayFairclough

Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from Middle English fayr (“fair, beautiful”) + clough (“narrow valley, ravine”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishfayr all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.