elfess

Definitions

A female elf.

Examples

“Her case was heard, but no sentence pronounced; for each elf was dying of anxiety to claim⟳ her as his elfess.”

“They were not mermaids, but almost like⟳ them. These water elfesses wore skirts of seaweed woven so that it looked like⟳ beautiful green cloth, and this covered their bodies, so that when they came ut^([sic]) of the water and sat on the shore their bodies did not show⟳ and no one saw⟳ they were like⟳ mermaids.”

““What prophecy?” I asked, somewhat aggrieved because I remembered the one made by the old elfess that I was to be doomed by a cruel lie⟳.”

““No! I mean⟳ their fathers were men, and their mothers were elfesses!””

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