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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

Example Sentences

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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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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

From Voices for the Speechless by Firth, Abraham

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

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Robertson, M. (Margaret)

Cease, cease, Ellen, my little one, Warbling so fairily close to my ear; Why should you choose, of all songs that are haunting me, This that I made for your mother to hear?

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

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