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
Then, one evening, he unleashed his thin black hounds at the very edge of Elfland and cut off a white unicorn from its faery retreat.
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
The Lay le Frain,enumerating the subjects of the Breton Lays, informs us expressly, Many ther beth faëry.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
Emerging into the clear, fine air above it, we might have been looking at early morning from the casement “opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faëry lands forlorn.”
From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall
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
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
