"fairy-land" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fairy-lands [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fairy-land (countable and uncountable, plural fairy-lands)
  1. Alternative form of fairyland. Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, 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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          "text": "Dear Miss Woodhouse, how do you do?—Very well I thank you, quite well. This is meeting quite in fairy-land!—Such a transformation!—Must not compliment, I know—(eyeing Emma most complacently)—that would be rude—but upon my word, Miss Woodhouse, you do look—how do you like Jane’s hair?",
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          "ref": "1882 October 7, “The Life of George Cruikshank: in Two Epochs. By Blanchard Jerrold. […]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 2867, London: […] John C. Francis, […], page 471, column 1:",
          "text": "We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.",
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