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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

In the grand dining room, the noble family had laid out elfin delicacies in heavy silver dishes.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin




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