单词 | fairy treasure |
释义 | > as lemmasfairy treasure fairy treasure n. (also fairies' treasure, fairy's treasure) treasure belonging to fairies and often supposed to be inexhaustible, or to disappear or to change into something worthless when revealed to others or used by humans. ΚΠ 1607 W. Barksted Mirrha sig. C5v She shewd her loue in dumb shewes with out tung, her lust she knew (yet hardly it concealde) like Fayries Treasur's vanish'd if reueal'd. 1642 F. Kynaston Leoline & Sydanis 94 To those we love..From Diamantine chests we use to bring Gold, Jewels, and whole heaps of fairy treasure. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 23 Every Man keeps it [sc. Religion] as a Fairy-Treasure. 1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. (1967) ii. 50 Those few..will have it in their power to..leave only a little fairey Treasure in the hands of the ignorant. 1830 C. Norton Undying One 221 The dreams of glory Kept fading from us like a fairy treasure. 1856 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 304/1 It was not an inexhaustible fairy treasure—it was only a hundred and fifty pounds. 1924 H. D. Sykes Sidelights on Elizabethan Drama x. 204 There is an allusion to fairy's treasure, which vanishes if its possessor reveals it. 1957 Folk-lore 68 275 It is very rash to attempt to steal fairy treasure. 2011 S. Harper Writing Paranormal Novel 25 A demon tries to steal the fairy treasure and open the mystic gate. < as lemmas |
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