faerie
noun
the imaginary land of the fairies; fairyland.
faery
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a variation of
faerie.
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“I always thought of her,” she says of one major player, “as more unscripted than liturgy, more faery than faithful.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2020
According to Tolkien scholar John Garth, the story helps to establish “parameters of Tolkien’s world, enshrining aspects of good and evil in faery races and demiurgic beings who are locked in perpetual conflict.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 1, 2018
That this new series – with its mythic beings, magic walls, faery wars and Night Kings – will surely be epic fantasy on a scale never before seen on TV.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2018
From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, getting faery lore and the Gaelic.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the waters and the wild, With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more fill of weeping than you can understand.”’
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
When Moira O'Donnell was born, Timothy Moran was thirty-three years old, a faëry number, as he often told himself afterward.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The mellowness of a summer evening sunset lays on it, and thereby it becomes a faëry land, a land of bliss and dreams.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
And now on Corrib's lonely shore, Freed by his word from power of faëry, To life, to love, restored once more, Young Cormac welcomes back his Mary.
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland by T. Crofton Crocker
The faëry took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my dear, go into the garden and fetch me a pumpkin."
From Cinderella by Henry W. Hewet
So Cinderella goes to the ball; but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in her engagements, her faëry godmother enjoins upon her that she return home at twelve.
From Cinderella by Henry W. Hewet
