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Meanings of elfin in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fairy"
Examples for "fairy"
1
The old Chinese fairy story hits upon a fundamental and vital truth.
2
The fairy bath was probably fed from the fountain in the court.
3
The grass in the churchyard sparkled with the fairy film of gossamers.
4
A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken, in their wrinkled paper cases.
5
In the wrong hands that information would be devastating to fairy security.
1
But the fay and nature spirits I've read of weren't exactly pleasant creatures.
2
Joan of Arc was asked during her trial if she were a fay.
3
And like our fay-mous bell tower, it also tilts, but not so much.
4
Here fossil preparator Scott Moore-Fay explains how this work is carried out.
5
This is only the first of the exploits of the Culprit Fay.
1
In a way I'd paid the price for my return to faerie.
2
The group of soldiers parted to reveal Yasmine, the young Winter faerie.
3
No troll in their right mind would try to drown a faerie.
4
The idea of being a faerie had seemed so real last night.
5
Why even the children of faerie are not immune from their ire.
1
Unfortunately, Niall was more Dark King than faery friend in the moment.
2
No other High Court faery remained on this side of the veil.
3
Seth frowned at her and then directed his words at the faery.
4
Niall reached out and put a hand on the injured faery's chest.
5
In a blink, the amorphous water fey was a lithe mortal-shaped faery.
Usage of elfin in English
1
Time passed far more quickly than the elfin leader would have preferred.
2
She looked elfin, but Catherine knew the type: She was a barracuda.
3
I pointed-wewere then just over the threshold of the elfin globe.
4
Her elfin features change into a delicate muddle of amusement and perplexion.
5
He looked up from the gilding and met her elfin gaze directly.
6
With her short, shaggy style she looked almost elfin, and supremely sexy.
7
This, along with the freckles dotting her cheeks, made her look elfin.
8
Flying flakes of foam were scurrying over the sand like elfin things.
9
The luxurious Miranueh dress was gone, replaced by ordinary male elfin clothes.
10
A globule of sapphire shone afar, the elfin bubble of her home.
11
The elfin girl's wide smile, with one missing tooth, was a heartbreaker.
12
Baron Verulam himself treads a heavy gait beside this airy elfin scamper.
13
Although the child was no beauty, she had an amusing, elfin air.
14
There were thin whistlings, hoarse grunts and harsh cacklings, high-pitched elfin laughter.
15
It would be pleasant to discuss elfin life once in a while.
16
His face looked like the faun's, elfin, mischievous, happy as the springtime.
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Elfin through the time
Elfin across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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