faerie
noun
the imaginary land of the fairies; fairyland.
faery
-
a variation of
faerie.
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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
Even a huge department store, in two tales, becomes a faery land forlorn.
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
So Cinderella goes to the ball; but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in her engagements, her faëry godmother enjoins upon her that she return home at twelve.
From Cinderella by Henry W. Hewet
When Moira O'Donnell was born, Timothy Moran was thirty-three years old, a faëry number, as he often told himself afterward.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
She seemed a princess of faëry, fresh from a bath of magic waters.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
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
