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fairyland|ˈfɛərɪlænd|
[f. as prec. + land.]
The country or home of the fairies; an enchanted land existing only in fancy. Also attrib.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 60 When thou wast stolne away from Fairy Land. 1665Dryden Ind. Emperor i. i, Methinks we walk in Dreams on Fairy Land. 17..Gray in Corr. N. Nicholls (1843) 294 King Arthur was not dead, but translated to Fairy-Land. 1832A. Earle Narr. Res. N.Z. (1966) 70 A beautiful rainbow..tinged the scene with a fairy-land effect. 1833Tennyson Poems 20 Looming like baseless fairyland. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 231 Euripides..entered the fairyland of dazzling fancy. 1968Times 15 Oct. 13/5 Wedgwood fairyland lustre, a twentieth-century ware especially sought after in America. |