fairy dance
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[B]y which means, all the virtue is drawn forth and carried away, leaving little more than a dry and inſipid congeſtion of Caput Mortuum, and perhaps a florid green Circle, or Fairy dance at the bottom, which the impregnated rains have inrich'd with what it has waſh'd from the heap."
- "In the yeare 1633-4, soone after I had entered into my grammar at the Latin Schoole at Yatton Keynel, our curate Mr. Hart was annoy’d one night by these elves or fayries, Comming over the downes, it being neere darke, and approching one of the faiery dances, as the common people call them in these parts, viz. the greene circles made by those sprites on the grasse, he all at once sawe an innumerable quantity of pigmies or very small people dancing rounde and rounde, and singing, and making all maner of small odd noyses."
- "Fairy-circles, fairy-rings, or fairy-dances, circles of coarse green grass often seen in meadows and downs, and attributed to the dancing of the fairies."