elfin

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

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.

Smiling his little elfin smile, he sometimes looks no older than that 11-year-old boy who had the world taken from him.

"Chalamet is elfin and puckish, unworldly and possessed of a Paddingtonian innocence and charm - and a nice singing voice - without being insufferable," he wrote.

With her elfin features and skinhead look she was one of pop music's most recognisable figures.