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English
Noun
fairy-land (countable and uncountable, plural fairy-lands)
- Alternative form of fairyland.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Emma: , volume III, London: for John Murray, →OCLC, page 18:Dear Miss Woodhouse, how do you do?—Very well I thank you, quite well. This is meeting quite in fairy-land!—Such a transformation!—Must not compliment, I know—(eyeing Emma most complacently)—that would be rude—but upon my word, Miss Woodhouse, you do look—how do you like Jane’s hair?
1852 December, G. M. C., “A Legend of the Snow-Drop”, in The Northern Magazine, Belfast: Henry Greer, , published 1853, page 290, column 1:She was beautiful, and he said that he would love her always with a love unchangeable as were all things in fairy-land; […]
1882 October 7, “The Life of George Cruikshank: in Two Epochs. By Blanchard Jerrold. ”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 2867, London: John C. Francis, , page 471, column 1:We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.
1896 May 1, H. P. Robinson, “Digressions. V.—The Convention.”, in The British Journal of Photography, volume XLIII, number 1878, London: Henry Greenwood & Co., , page 277, column 1:It is now becoming one of the best-known facts in the history of photography that the annual meeting of the Convention, wherever it is held, is the happiest place to enjoy talking shop in the world; it is a fairy-land of make-believe, and is not only harmless, but salutary.