| 单词 | fairy knight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy knight fairy knight n. (originally) a supernatural or legendary knight; (in later use chiefly) a knight of fairyland. ΚΠ c1330Fairy kniȝt [see Compounds 1b]. 1592 A. Munday tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande: 2nd Pt. xii. sig. D The fayrie Knight..answered. Ladie, right glad am I that I haue slaine the monster. 1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 171 Pigwiggen was this Fayrie Knight, One wondrous gracious in the sight Of faire Queene Mab, which day and night, He amorously obserued. 1785 S. E. Brydges Sonnets & Other Poems 22 To turn the page of heroes old, Of fairy Knights, and Barons bold. 1827 Casket 31 Mar. 60/1 He seemed to her rather like the apparition of some fairy knight of her favourite legends, than a man of this world. 1905 A. Lang Red Romance Bk. 221 Oberon bade one of his fairy knights to bring him his golden cup. 2005 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 7 Aug. l28 Kaye comes across a wounded man..with a strange arrow sticking from his side. The man turns out to be Roiben, a fairy knight. < as lemmas |
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