FACIES

PRONUNCIATION: (FAY-shee-eez, -sheez)

MEANING: noun:
1. General appearance.
2. In medicine, a distinctive appearance associated with a pathological condition.
3. In geology, a body of rock with specific characteristics.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin facies (face). Earliest documented use: 1398.
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FARIES - leprechauns and sprites and the like, who come from distant places

FAQIES - cute little questions that everybody asks

FARCIES - comic stage works using buffoonery and horseplay, typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations, written in Persian