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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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“See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, 291 Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design!”

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design!

From Project Gutenberg

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

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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?

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