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fairily

American  
[fair-uh-lee] / ˈfɛər ə li /

adverb

  1. in a manner suggestive of fairies; delicately.


Etymology

Origin of fairily

First recorded in 1860–65; fairy + -ly


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Let us sing, Breathing softly, fairily, Swelling sweetly, airily, Till earth and sky our echo ring.

From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

V. At length burst in the argent revelry, With plume, tiara, and all rich array, Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain, new stuff'd, in youth, with triumphs gay40 Of old romance.

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by M. (Margaret) Robertson

Outside there was a vivid rose of sunset behind the cold hills of fir, and the long reaches of snowy fields glowed fairily pink in the western light.

From The Golden Road by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl.

From Voices for the Speechless by Abraham Firth

Refreshments were offered to us as to friends, and we lunched fairily upon little dishes of rose leaves, delicately preserved, with all their fragrance, in a "lucent sirup."

From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells

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