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sídh

American  
[shee] / ʃi /
Or shee

noun

Irish Folklore.

plural

sídhe

  1. a mound or hill in which fairies live.

  2. a fairy.

  3. sídhe, the race of fairies.

Etymology

Origin of sídh

1785–95; < Irish; MIr síd, síth fairy mound; cf. banshee

Example Sentences

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This word "sídh," which was applied—probably in the first place—to hollow mounds such as this, but which was also applied to the dwellers in them, gave the Tuatha De Danann their most popular name.

From Fians, Fairies and Picts by MacRitchie, David

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