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little folk en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) Small magical humanoid creatures, such as elves, leprechauns, and fairies.
Pure native gold,
And the rock-crystals shaped like towers, clear,
Transparent, gleam with colours thousandfold
Through the fair palace, and the Little-folk,
So happy and so gay, amuse themselves[.]
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 84:
Synonyms
little people