faerie
or fa·er·y
Origin of faerie
1- Also fa·ër·y .
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How to use faerie in a sentence
Disraeli affectionately (and with irreverence that shocked everyone but la reine) referred to Victoria as the "Faery Queen."
Sad faery blossoms secret scents distil In trackless solitudes; nor ever will The lone anemone her lover find!
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierAnd at that a cloud drew across the moons face as if by faery, and of a sudden a great hot wind blew from the south.
Japanese Fairy Tales | Grace JamesThe Faery Queen turned to Guyon, one of the bravest and handsomest of her young knights.
Stories from the Faerie Queen | Edmund SpenserShe had been ambuscaded in the street to-day by demons not of faery, but of fact, that had leaped out at her from nowhere.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes
Though barren, and without shrub or tree, the island looked lovely also—a very realm of faery, in the silver smiling of the moon.
The Lily and the Totem | William Gilmore Simms
British Dictionary definitions for faerie
faery
/ (ˈfeɪərɪ, ˈfɛərɪ) /
the land of fairies
enchantment
a variant of fairy
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