Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The queen of the elves or fairies.
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Examples
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The girl lay silently back, as the motor whizzed along, and looked half-consciously for the elf-queen to wave life into this dead world again.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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If she had been anybody else - any other fairy, sprite, elf-queen, witch, or spirit - I'd have been a gentleman and called her a cab.
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If she had been anybody else - any other fairy, sprite, elf-queen, witch, or spirit - I'd have been a gentleman and called her a cab.
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Hence, a psionic boy with telepathic powers due to his mutation is a science fiction character; but a prophet who reads the unspoken thoughts in the hearts of men due to a blessing from the elf-queen, is a fantasy character.
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I've always favoured eighteenth century --there was an attempt by some kinds to that cliched cod-Victorian Goth+corset stuff, and one obviously English fan looking a little lost and considerably upstaged in her post Worldcon elf-queen costume.
La Serenissima and lovely books slimmeroftheyea 2006
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The hobbits 'hole-dwellings may originate from Anglo-Saxon semisunken huts known as grubenhäuser, like those found at West Stow, Sussex; Celtic and Roman wells from all over Britain may have inspired the spiritual waters the elf-queen Galadriel controls; and both Boromir's funeral and the dwarves' smithing abilities are linked to the Sutton Hoo burial ship and its bounty of gold and silver artifacts.
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Tanis wondered what Alhana, elf-queen of the Silvanesti, thought of the man she had married for the sake of politics.
Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995
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They came a few timid steps further into the room, and began to bow low, feeling strangely surprised and awkward, like folk that, knocking at a cottage door to beg for a drink of water, have been answered by a fair young elf-queen clad in living flowers.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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They came a few timid steps further into the room, and began to bow low, feeling strangely surprised and awkward, like folk that, knocking at a cottage door to beg for a drink of water, have been answered by a fair young elf-queen clad in living flowers.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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The girl lay silently back, as the motor whizzed along, and looked half-consciously for the elf-queen to wave life into this dead world again.
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