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sprite

noun as in fairy

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I amused them by wearing a flower crown and pitching my voice high to play Puck, a mischievous sprite.

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Braid dandelions or daisies into a floral crown, and the wearer becomes a forest sprite.

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The show’s makers also used crowd sprites, in which actors were filmed individually on green screens and then arranged to appear as part of the crowd.

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Pee-wee is a sprite, a creature of myth, like Pan — immune to time or decay or serious illness.

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Her near life-size ceramic figures of animals, sprites and fairy-tale heroines in moments of frozen intimacy are prickly and emotional in a way that’s hard to get over.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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