Meanings
nounelf-girl (plural elf-girls)
plural elf-girls
- A young female elf.
It is said that a farmer was engaged to an elf-girl, but instead of a bride he embraced an oak sapling.
1884, Hilderic Friend, Flowers and Flower Lore, volume I, London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., page 411 more example
A little Elf-girl once came to the mistress of the house, begging the loan of a pair of scissors, to cut out her bridal dress with.
1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 127
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