Fair, meaning?

[nq:1]Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ones, Fair ones, too What's the meaning of "fair" in this context? You've probably guessed that it's a children's song excerpt.[/nq]
www.dictionary.com would be a good place to start looking. There you will easily find out that "fair" means "light in color; of light complexion." I doubt that the song intends for the word to have its alte

[nq:2]Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ... context? You've probably guessed that it's a children's song excerpt.[/nq]
[nq:1]www.dictionary.com would be a good place to start looking. There you will easily find out that "fair" means "light in color; of light complexion." I doubt that the song intends for the word to have its alternate meaning of "lawful to hunt or attack".[/nq

[nq:2]Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ... context? You've probably guessed that it's a children's song excerpt.[/nq]
[nq:1]www.dictionary.com would be a good place to start looking. There you will easily find out that "fair" means "light in color; of light complexion." I doubt that the song intends for the word to have its alternate meaning of "lawful to hunt or attack".[/nq

[nq:1]Could you explain why you tend towards "light in color" and not, for example, "visually appealing, pleasing to the eye"? That was my first thought, but I'm not a native speaker of English.[/nq]
Hmmm. I've heard that song many times and always assumed that it was the "light colored" meaning that was meant but I never asked myself why I felt that. It may be because of the previous t

In our last episode,
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the lovely and talented reiro
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[nq:1]Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ones, Fair ones, too What's the meaning of "fair" in this context? You've probably guessed that it's a children's song excerpt.[/nq]
Light in color.

Lars Eighner (Email Removed)

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[nq:2]Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ... context? You've probably guessed that it's a children's song excerpt.[/nq]
[nq:1]Light in color.[/nq]
Nah much more likely to mean "pleasant in appearance" or the like.

Until recently, "fair" indicating light colour was usually restricted to hair and complexion.
Matti

[nq:2] broadcast: Light in color.[/nq]
[nq:1]Nah much more likely to mean "pleasant in appearance" or the like. Until recently, "fair" indicating light colour was usually restricted to hair and complexion.[/nq]
As early as 888, according to the OED, it was used to mean "beautiful".
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A. adj. (In all the older senses formerly used antithetically with foul. This is now obs. or

[nq:2]Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ... context? You've probably guessed that it's a children's song excerpt.[/nq]
[nq:1]www.dictionary.com would be a good place to start looking.[/nq]
Perhaps not, if:
[nq:1]There you will easily find out that "fair" means "light in color; of light complexion." I doubt that the song intends for the word to have its alternate meanin

[nq:1]I wonder why your dictionary didn't direct you to 'attractive, nice-looking' which, to me, is what it clearly means in the poem.[/nq]
Shall I wasting in despair
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?

[nq:2] broadcast on alt.usage.english: Light in color.[/nq]
[nq:1]Nah much more likely to mean "pleasant in appearance" or the like. Until recently, "fair" indicating light colour was usually restricted to hair and complexion.[/nq]
Fortuitously, the BBC Radio 4 programme Questions, Questions yesterday was discussing "Do blondes REALLY have more fun?", and the genetic aspect bobbed up: "Fai