elfland

American  

[elf-land] / ˈɛlfˌlænd /

noun

1. the realm or world of elves; fairyland.

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elfland British  

/ ˈɛlfˌlænd /

noun

1. another name for fairyland

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Etymology

Origin of elfland

First recorded in 1475–85; elf + land

Example Sentences

The first pointed to elfland, and the second to—shall we say, Prussia.

From The Crimes of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Again the tactics of its crew brought it close in shore, this time nearly opposite the consulate; and then there blew from the sloop clear and surprising notes as if from a horn of elfland.

From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.

And oft, like some thin faery-thing,   The stormy hush amid, I hear his captive trebles sing   Beneath the kettle's lid; Or now a harp of elfland string   In some dark cranny hid.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

But the Greeks carried their police regulation into elfland; they vetoed not the actual adulteries of the earth but the wild weddings of ideas, and forbade the banns of thought.

From The Defendant by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

I thought—I thought I was in elfland and that they were paying me for the tithe to hell;” and he still shuddered all over.

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Yonge, Charlotte Mary