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Queen Mab

[mab]

noun

  1. Irish and English Folklore.,  a mischievous, tantalizing fairy who governs and produces people's dreams.



Queen Mab

/ mæb /

noun

  1. (in British folklore) a bewitching fairy who rules over men's dreams

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Jonathan Holby’s fight direction introduces a gun into the arsenal of knives that does away with Jack Riddiford’s charismatic Mercutio, here an insolent provocateur who has barely spoken the Queen Mab speech before he disappears.

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Queen Mab’s crown was magically and wondrously wrought so that it passes only from one blood relation to another, in an unbroken line.

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“And that is why Queen Mab bargained with the wild fey to make the crown King Eldred wears, which can only be passed down to her descendants. It would be tricky to get it by force.”

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His grandmother was Queen Mab, of the House of the Greenbriar.

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The first High Queen, Mab, had her smith forge a crown.

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