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English : nickname for a person believed to have supernatural qualities, from Middle English, Old French faie ‘fairy’ (Late Latin fata ‘fate’, ‘destiny’).English : nickname for a trustworthy person, from Middle English, Old French fei ‘loyalty’, ‘trust’.English (of Norman origin) and French : habitational name from any of various places in France named with Old French faie ‘beech’, or a topographic name from someone living by a beech wood. Compare Lafayette.Irish : variant of Fahey.Irish : variant of Fee.
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Surname. At the age of 20 the French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette went to fight for four years...
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English and French : topographic name for someone who lived by a granary, from Middle English, Old French grange (Latin granica ‘granary’, ‘barn’, from granum ‘grain’). In some cases, the surname has arisen from places named with this word, for example in Dorset and West Yorkshire in England, and in Ardèche and Jura in France. The Marquis de Lafayette owned a property named Lagrange, and there used to be a place in VT so named in his honor.
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An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
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A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
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A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
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The dollar fish.