elf circle

English

Noun

elf circle (plural elf circles)

  1. Synonym of fairy ring (“ring of fungi; place where fairies dance”).
    • 1925, G.B. Stern, The Matriarch, New York: Grosset and Dunlop, page 41:
      He was harking back, scornfully, to that green elf-circle into which the tall Riviera girl had lured him.
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