elf-lady

noun

An adult female elf.

Meanings

nounelf-lady (plural elf-ladies)

plural elf-ladies

  1. An adult female elf.

    There the heroine said to the elf-lady in the evening, as she was dressing the infant: "You have had a great many visitors today."

    1891, Edwin Sidney Hartland, The Science of Fairy Tales, London: Walter Scott, page 64
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