Brewer's: Fairing

(A). A present from a fair. The ing is a patronymic = a descendant of, come from, belonging to.

“Fairings come thus plentifully in.”

Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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