English: nickname for someone with beautiful long hair from Middle English fair fax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English: the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers [...]
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What is the origin of the name Fairfax?
English: nickname for someone with beautiful long hair from Middle English fair fax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English: the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers [...]