fairy light
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- noun
- /ˈfɛri laɪt/
- UK
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luz de hadas
- Fairy lights will guide you through Edinburgh's charming streets to one-of-a-kind boutiques during the city's extended late-night shopping hours.
- fairy lights twinkling
- a string of fairy lights
I also got two different fairy light sets.
- I also got two different fairy light sets.
- Most years I've just put garlands on the staircase with fairy lights.
- But I will say with these little fairy lights, they were just the very thin like wire strips of fairy lights.
Examples
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And when it comes to lighting, we always tend to get the warm white fairy lights for everywhere in our house.
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And we're going to have fairy lights all the way up the drive.
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And I also put fairy lights all around here.
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But maybe some fairy lights, maybe some plants, We'll see.
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- Did you get the fairy lights?
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Getting the holiday home ready for some fairy lights.
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Anyway, so all we really did was add some fairy lights and a little Merry Christmas sign.
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Oh, they're going to be so cute with fairy lights on them for Christmas.
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It's got snow and fairy lights and tiny little cute baubles.
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The entire area was decorated with fairy lights for the festive celebration.
Synonyms
A small paper lantern with a candle that lights paths at night
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Morphology
The compound combines 'fairy' (evoking small, delicate, or whimsical) with 'light' (a lamp or bulb), so a learner who knows both words can plausibly infer a small/decorative light. The metaphorical use of 'fairy' to signal diminutive/ornamental quality is common and cross-linguistically accessible, making the overall meaning predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Fairy light: The name comes from the idea that tiny, twinkling lights look like little fairies dancing in the dark. So the phrase means 'small decorative lights' used to make a place feel 'magical'.