[f. as prec. + LAND.] The country or home of the fairies; an enchanted land existing only in fancy.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., II. i. 60. When thou wast stolne away from Fairy Land.
1665. Dryden, Ind. Emperor, I. i.
| Vasq. Methinks we walk in Dreams on Fairy Land, | |
| Where golden Ore lies mixt with common Sand? |
17[?]. Gray, in Corr. Norton Nicholls (1843), 294. King Arthur was not dead, but translated to Fairy-Land.
1833. Tennyson, Poems, Mariana in the South 20.
| Far, far, one lightblue ridge was seen, | |
| Looming like baseless fairyland. |
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, vii. 231. Euripides, alone of the Greeks, with the exception of Aristophanes, entered the fairyland of dazzling fancy which Calderon and Shakespeare and Fletcher trod.
