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elfin

[el-fin] / ˈɛl fɪn /


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With her bleach-blond punk haircut, puckish grin and bright elfin eyes, she could have come to the company’s heavily guarded San Francisco headquarters straight from a Berlin rave, via an old forest road in Middle-earth.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

It actually took a few years for the elfin monsters to break into the mainstream.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2025

Soon I was navigating the reading nooks and chef’s kitchens of an elfin cottage, a gothic coastal A-frame, a cozy “loch house” in the Scottish Highlands.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2024

Ten-feet-tall men and women with large eyes and elfin ears are set in exotic alien locales that bring to mind fantasy artist Frank Frazetta or certain Lakota friends I've met.

From Salon Dec. 22, 2022

It was Werfel’s job to host the elfin emissary in the city, to take the scholar in as a guest in his own home.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin




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