faydom

noun

faydom

noun

Etymology From fay (“fairy”) + -dom.

1

The realm or sphere of faerie.

  • [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.1853, Charles Dickens, Household words:
  • He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom.1998, George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz:

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