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Elfin
Elfin meaning
An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land. | A little urchin or child. | Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys.
Example sentences (12)
Her jaw thrust forward like a prow, her elfin eyes belying her regal bearing, her wide-screen mouth wrapping itself around those slashing, implacable consonants — they’re all exactly as you remember them and want them to be.
She then smiles her elfin smile.
The publication has also been credited for the re-emergence of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin (1977), which even received praise from renowned fantasy author, Neil Gaiman.
Aidan O’Brien is well represented with Magic Wand and Elfin Queen while Joseph O’Brien runs his recent Curragh Group 3 Snow Fairy Stakes winner Thundering Nights and Bolleville.
As a tiny, elfin figure, her intellectual rebellion makes more of an impression than it might if she took up more physical space.
Elfin John and Hunter Moonblood drove to Camp Pendleton the next morning to pick up the next generation of Hightower family after his deployment to the Middle East.
The Healesville resident won the M and O category race in his Elfin 600B in 2018 and will be competing in Benalla again this year.
Her elfin looks have earned her a string of soubriquets over the years, among them 'world's first supermodel' and 'the face of 1966'.
His father, Joseph, was a truck driver, and his mother, Bessie (Margolis) Elfin, was a homemaker.
But in the person of Miss Hepburn, she is a genuinely charming, elfin waif who will be believed and adored when seen.
The trail to and along its ridge passes by Grand Etang Lake and then rises up to the higher altitudes, cooler temperatures, and elfin mountain forests of the upper slopes.
They initially lived in a flat in Chelsea before moving to Elfin Cottage in Beckenham in 1926, and then to Old Thatch in Bourne End (called Peterswood in her books) in 1929.