faerie

She could have auditioned to be the tavern wench or a faerie; instead, she signed on as a merchant, knitting chain-mail bikinis.

Spenser was at work on his Faerie Queene, alongside his preoccupation with state business, for nearly twenty years.

The company were reminded, then, that they were floating on Echo Lake and no stream of the land of faerie.

What sane man, reading 'The Faerie Queene,' could think that it purported to depict actual scenes or incidents?