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Elvish adj.

Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish. "He seemeth elvish by his countenance."

Mysterious; also, foolish. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Elvish" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Athelney along a low long road like an interminable white string stretched across the flats, and lined with those dwarfish trees that are elvish in their very dullness. At one point of the journey (I cannot conceive why) one is arrested by a toll gate at which one has to pay threepence. Perhaps it is a distorted tradition of those dark ages. Perhaps Alfred, ...

— Alarms and Discursions • G. K. Chesterton

... excursion on the water; she would not return till very late. Angelina would be alone, accessible. It was her duty to guard the house in the absence of its mistress. He might have gone there on some pretext and talked awhile, and looked into her elvish eyes and listened to that Southern voice, rich and clear as a bell. Almost he yielded. He thought of the ineptitude of the whole undertaking and, in particular, of those slippery stairs; one might break ...

— South Wind • Norman Douglas

Words linked to "Elvish" : elfin, elfish