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English
Etymology
By sound change from vagary.
Pronunciation
Noun
figary (plural figaries)
- A whim or eccentricity.
c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):is she not a woman, and subject to those mad figaries her whole sex is infected with?
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