I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child.
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Fairy tale
/ˈfɛɹi ˌteɪl/
Synonyms for "fairy tale" (91 found)
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Noun(7 words)
adventure storyallegoryapologuebedtime storyblaguecock-and-bull storydetective storyexaggerationfablefabliaufabricationfalsehood
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15 entriesadaptationchildrens anthologychildrens taleenchanted creaturefolktalefolktale collectionimplausible endingmagical settingmiraculous rescuepipe dreamretellingstorybook packagingstorybook romancetall talewhimsical branding
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11 entriesbedtime fairy taleclassic fairy talefairy tale motiffairy-tale atmospherefairy-tale endingfairy-tale qualityfairy-tale romancefairy-tale settingfairy-tale worldfolk talemodern fairy tale
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The Wife of Bathes Tale is evidently a Fairy-tale. It thus commences: In olde dayes of the king Artour, / Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, / All was this land fulfilled of faerie.
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The Arabian Nights rehears'd in bed! / The Fairy Tales in school-time read.
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Their dresses were rich, and when they came bounding forward, their shapes of silver tissue, with their feathered diadems and faces of animated beauty, they might be imagined into scarcely less than the creations of fairy tale.
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