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Elfin   /ˈɛlfɪn/   Listen
Elfin

adjective
1.
Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness.  Synonym: fey.  "The fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"
2.
Small and delicate.  Synonym: elflike.  "Obsessed by things elfin and small"
3.
Relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf.  "All the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"
4.
Usually good-naturedly mischievous.  Synonyms: elfish, elvish.  "Elvish tricks"





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"Elfin" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jane see their prayers ascending like thin gold chains, for that was but an elfin fancy, but she imagined clear in her new soul the seraphs passing in the ways of Paradise, and the angels changing guard to watch the World ...
— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany
... rose from out the bosom of the lake, And Arthur rowed across and took it—rich With jewels, elfin Urim, on the hilt, Bewildering heart and eye—the blade so bright That men are blinded by it—on one side, Graven in the oldest tongue of all this world, "Take me," but turn the blade and ye shall see, And written in the speech ye speak ...
— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson
... his face odd, then interesting; now she found it strangely attractive. His eyes, between sandy lashes and under thick sandy brows, were of a sea-blue in colour, his head was covered with a cap of thick, lustreless, sand-coloured hair. Something odd, elfin, whimsical, in his crooked smile lent an actual charm to his face, for Martie at least. She told him he ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... meat in jelly froze! O tender haunch of elfin stag! O rich the odour that arose! O ...
— Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes - Volume II. • Walter de la Mare
... suddenly realized how long and weary the road would be for just such a one as the fascinated little figure on the steps, before he could begin to approach that level which, to a society that Caleb understood, was typified by this exquisite, elfin figure, ...
— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans


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