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单词 fairy people
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fairy people
b. Appositive, as fairy elf, fairy folk, fairy people, etc.Recorded earliest in fairy knight n. at Compounds 2.
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c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 655 (MED) A fairy kniȝt herin is.
1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. E Then wil I speed mee to the groues vnhanted, Where Satyres sport them to the Fairie wood-Nymphs.
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. C5v I applaud my selfe, For nettle-stinging thus this fayery elfe.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. ii. 24 Euery Elfe and Fairy spright, Hop as light as birde from brier. View more context for this quotation
1650 R. Baron Pocula Castalia 90 Thousand Cupids frisk'd and plai'd With Fairy Graces thither come To prove her Breast Elizium.
1718 Free-thinker No. 94. 274 The Pleasure..would have proved a fruitless Toil to the wandering Lover, had he not been instructed by his Fairy Guide in the Geography of the Building.
1816 Scots Mag. Apr. 290/2 Many a fairy elf is there, Gliding through the murky air.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. iii. 117 Tales Of fairy folk, and sleepless ghosts.
1855 F. W. Robinson House of Elmore III. iii. 61 She was like a fairy partner for me.
1931 A. Wilson in E. S. Stevens Folk Tales Iraq p. xiv Stories in which jānn, or fairy-folk, don at will the appearance of birds.
1998 S. Kane Wisdom of Mythtellers 106 These mysterious hills contain..the fairy people.
2001 R. Grimassi Beltane ii. 28 Evidence exists that the fairy sprite called Robin Goodfellow was of Etruscan origin.
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