Meaning of elf-light | Babel Free

Definitions

A supernatural, soft, glowing light given off by elves.

literary, uncountable

Examples

“His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle.”

“No elf-light hovers round the pool.”

“"You don't mean it!" The promise had come like a blinding surge of elf-light to that soul so long nurtured upon poor hopes.”

““Jam!” said the troll contemptuously and thought of the tarns of Elfland, the great lily-leaves lying flat upon their solemn waters, the huge blue lilies towering into the elf-light above the green deep tarns: for jam this child had forsaken them!”

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