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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

Jordan was elfin to look at and Southern to hear, “limitations” that proved assets.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2022

Alice — her short, inky hair in a halo of spiky disarray around her exquisite, elfin face — was suddenly standing behind his shoulder.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer




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