| 单词 | folk of peace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfolk of peace c. folk of peace [mistranslation of Gaelic daoine sídhe, lit. people of the fairy hill (compare Irish bean sídhe banshee n.), by confusion with síthe, genitive of síth peace] : fairy folk, fairies. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > collectively fairya1375 good neighboura1585 faerie1612 good peoplea1692 small people1696 little people1719 Sidhe1724 gentrya1731 little mena1731 small folk1785 little folk1791 gentlefolk1795 the wee folk1819 good folk1820 Pharisee1823 gentle-people1832 fairyhood1844 folk of peace1875 a1692 R. Kirk Secret Commonw. in M. Hunter Occult Lab. (2001) iii. 94 The Seers avouch that severals who go to the Sith's (or people at rest and in peace) befor the natural period of their lyf expyr, do frequentlie appear to them. 1841 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone xi. 215 ‘Not of the race of Adam,’ said the creature, turning for a moment in its saddle: ‘the People of Peace shall never more be seen in Scotland.’] 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 203/2 The Highlanders call them the folk of peace. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona i. 8 I am nameless like the Folk of Peace. 1900 J. G. Campbell Superstit. Sc. Highlands i. 1 The Fairy or Elfin people, or, as they are called both in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the sìth people, that is, ‘the people of peace’, the ‘still folk’, or ‘silently-moving’ people.] < as lemmas |
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