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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
faerie

supernatural kingdom, "Elfland," c.1300, from Old French fairie; see fairy.

Wiktionary
faerie

n. 1 (archaic spelling of fairy English) 2 Realm of the fays, fairyland.

WordNet
faerie
  1. n. small, human in form, playful, having magical powers [syn: fairy, faery, sprite]

  2. the enchanted realm of fairies [syn: fairyland, faery]

Wikipedia
Faerie (DC Comics)

Faerie, The Fair Lands or The Twilight Realm is one of two fictional otherdimensional homelands for the Faerie, as published by DC Comics. The Vertigo Comics realm of Faerie is an amalgam of the mythological realms of Álfheimr, Otherworld, the Fortunate Isles, Tír na nÓg and Avalon. This mix is heavily influenced by Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is home to the faeries and other mythical races, ruled over by the Seelie Court and King Auberon and Queen Titania. Faerie debuted in The Books of Magic #3, and was created by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.

Usage examples of "faerie".

This king of Faerie adown him set Upon a bank of turfes fresh and green, And right anon thus said he to his queen.

Never mind the tales Baldric had made up of faeries and ogres and beasties.

Newt buzzed to his side, looking at him curiously, and the king swatted a hand at the faerie dragon with no more thought than he would have given to striking a bug.

Right Honorable Judge Cooble Pilk, senior magistrate of the exceedingly superior court of the Kingdom of Purple, do hereby order that the prisoners be banished forever from the Kingdom of Purple and the Realms of Faerie back to their revoltingly commonplace place of residence, there to be released into exile with the promise never to return.

Put that same spell caster inside the sithen, inside faerie, with no damper of metal and technology on them, and your officers would be in even greater danger of being bespelled.

The guns would only be allowed in certain parts of the sithen, the faerie mounds.

Weka Dart was an Ulk Bog, and all the Ulk Bogs of ancient times, of Faerie, had been sent into the Forbidding along with the other creatures who were indiscriminately predatory.

Gold a moment later, when the holograph of an unclad faerie hovered above the computer.

Alien abductions, Bigfoot in the piney wood hills, faeries skipping through downtown streets, goblins in the sewers.

They were free of Robert, and Gary was free of Faerie, for he held the reforged spear.

As the battle between blessed and unblessed raged, gnomes, faeries and pixies worked to put out the fires before they spread.

Lac la Peche, a small wood sacred to the native manitou that immigrating Faerie had named Rathbabh and taken for their own.

Not all the faerie were nymphs and fairies and elves and other cute characters.

Faerie, surely one of the most charming has to be Sneezlewort Rootmuster Rowanberry Boggs the Seventh, a hawthorn root faery with a heart as large as the sky and an unfortunate penchant for getting into trouble.

Of all the denizens of Faerie, surely one of the most charming has to be Sneezlewort Rootmuster Rowanberry Boggs the Seventh, a hawthorn root faery with a heart as large as the sky and an unfortunate penchant for getting into trouble.