elf-light
noun1
Literary A supernatural, soft, glowing light given off by elves.
- His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle.1863, Roden Noel, Behind the Veil: And Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., page 149:
- No elf-light hovers round the pool.1865, G. Linnæus Banks, Daisies in the Grass: A Collection of Songs and Poems, London: Robert Hardwicke, page 142:
2 more examples
- "You don't mean it!" The promise had come like a blinding surge of elf-light to that soul so long nurtured upon poor hopes.1916, Wallace Irwin, Suffering Husbands, New York: George H. Doran, published 1920, page 174:
- “Jam!” said the troll contemptuously and thought of the tarns of Elfland, the great lily-leaves lying flat upon their solemn waters, the huge blue lilies towering into the elf-light above the green deep tarns: for jam this child had forsaken them!1924, Lord Dunsany, chapter VII, in The King of Elfland's Daughter, New York: G.P. Puttnam's Sons, page 59: