Etymology
Origin of fairyhood
Example Sentences
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The 'elf' is flourishing in all good fairyhood, with a scarlet rose leaf on each cheek.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
That other, which he displays, with mock emphasis, of restitution to the downtrodden fairyhood, is an exotic, fair and slight bud, grafted into the sturdier indigenous stock.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
Meantime she writes to a friend that “the ‘elf’ is flourishing in all good fairyhood, with a scarlet rose leaf on each cheek.”
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
Your fairyhood doesn't seem to have done you much good.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
She had bravely striven to keep her fairyhood, and in the battle of wits, had lost.
From Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis
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