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Fairytale

noun

A story about fairies; told to amuse children. Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale.

An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse. Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance.

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"Fairytale" Quotes from Famous Books

... to either of their old friends, any more than Miles has alluded to his expulsion. Oh, yes, we may sit here and look at them, and they may show off to us there to their fill; but even while they pretend to be lost in their fairytale they're steeped in their vision of the dead restored. He's not reading to her," I declared; "they're talking of THEM—they're talking horrors! I go on, I know, as if I were crazy; and it's a wonder I'm not. What I've seen would have made YOU so; but it has only made me more lucid, made me get ...

— The Turn of the Screw • Henry James

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Words linked to "Fairytale" : tale, fib, story, Bluebeard, taradiddle, tarradiddle, fairy story, narration, narrative