fairily

American  

[fair-uh-lee] / ˈfɛər ə li /

adverb

1. in a manner suggestive of fairies; delicately.

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Etymology

Origin of fairily

First recorded in 1860–65; fairy + -ly

Example Sentences

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

Mrs. Fontenette gave a faint gasp of impatience and left us at a run, tripping fairily across the rough street at the only point visible to those on the veranda.

From Strong Hearts by Cable, George Washington

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 Howells, William Dean

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