Usually means: Traditional colorful knitting technique Scotland.
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  1. Fair Isle: Merriam-Webster
  2. Fair Isle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Fair Isle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Fair Isle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Fair Isle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Fair Isle: Wiktionary
  7. Fair Isle: Dictionary.com
  8. Fair Isle (horse), Fair Isle (technique), Fair Isle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Fair Isle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. fair isle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  11. Fair Isle: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Fair Isle: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Fair Isle)

noun:  A small island between Shetland and Orkney
noun:  A sea area centred on this island
noun:  (knitting) A traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours.

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