faerie
noun
the imaginary land of the fairies; fairyland.
faery
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a variation of
faerie.
Example Sentences
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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
The book is a faery epic, astonishingly perfect.
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
Here he had been born; and here was the setting of many early memories, now seen through a kind of faëry dusk.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
Cinderella hastened to the garden as she was desired, and found the six lizards, which she put into her apron and brought to the faëry.
From Cinderella by Henry W. Hewet
In the evening, strings of variegated lamps, with festoons of flowers, swing from minaret to minaret, and hang over the illuminated city like a faëry crown.
From Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 by John Auldjo
Donal thought—the first night she came to him softly through the ferns—that her coming was like that of some fair thing not of earth—a vision out of some old legend or ancient poem of faëry.
From Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Timothy's tongue was loosened by the understanding in the little girl's eyes and he poured out to her the wise foolishness of his inconsequent and profound faëry lore.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
