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glendoveer|glɛndəʊˈvɪə(r)|
[Avowedly an alteration of grandouver in Sonnerat Voy. aux Indes (1782); from the context in which the word occurs in that work (I. 185 ff.), it appears to represent Skr. gandharva, a kind of semi-divine spiritual being.]
One of a race of beautiful sprites in Southey's artificial quasi-Hindu mythology.
1810Southey Kehama vi. ii, The Glendoveers, The loveliest race of all of heavenly birth. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. (‘Rebuilding by R. S.’), I am a blessed Glendoveer. 1835Tait's Mag. II. 228, I looked carefully to his shoulders, in hopes that I had discovered a glendoveer. 1842Lytton Zanoni iv. xi, Glendoveers and sylphs. |