a. [f. FADE v. + -Y1.] Tending to fade, shading off by degrees into a paler hue.

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1730–6.  in Bailey (folio).

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c. 1750.  Shenstone, Ruin’d Abbey 180. The vivid vermeil left his fady cheek. Ibid. (1763), Ess., 105. Planted … with yew-trees, then firs, then with trees more and more fady.

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1775.  in Ash; and in later Dicts.

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