"fairy land" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} fairy land (uncountable)
  1. Alternative form of fairyland. Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: fairyland
    Sense id: en-fairy_land-en-noun-WgyoHp~9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 28:",
          "text": "A wanderer, here by fortune tost, / My way, my friends, my courser lost, / I ne'er before, believe me, fair, / Have ever drawn your mountain air, / Till on this lake's romantic strand, / I found a fay in fairy land.",
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          "ref": "1835 May 2, Andrew Ellis, “Clinical Lecture on a case of Catalepsy, Occurring in the Jervis-Street Hospital, Dublin”, in The Lancet, volume 2, page 130:",
          "text": "Ecstasy bears a strong resemblance to catalepsy: in both cases the patients, during the paroxysm, lose all connexion with the physical world, being deprived of sense and voluntary motion; but in ecstasy, associations of the most pleasing and enchanting nature are established with an ideal existence in an unknown region, which might perhaps be poetically designated the fairy land of an undescried Elysium.",
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          "text": "The fanciful fables of fairy land are but allegories of the young poet's mind when the sweet spell is upon him.",
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          "ref": "1848, Charles Kingsley, Junior, The Saint’s Tragedy; or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene xi, page 138:",
          "text": "Who would rot on the moor-side forgotten, / Slaughtered bickering for some petty town, / While the rich East blooms fragrant before us, / And all fairy land beckons us on?",
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