Keeping Up Appearances vocabulary

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fey

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Definition:
1. overrefined; pretentious
2. mysterious; magical; fairylike
3. doomed
4. a fairy
5. faith [archaic]
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Hyacinth: Now Richard, I want you to tell me if this looks like a "mingling with the aristocracy" hat.
Richard: [offhandedly] It's fine... fine.
Hyacinth: Now I don't want any snap judgements. Please remember that this will be among some very aristocratic hats!
Richard: It's fey... fey!
Hyacinth: Don't be silly, dear.

BBC. Keeping Up Appearances, season 5: The Country Estate Sale (1995)
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the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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Mary receiving her mystical, fey peasants. These are timeless moments; they help to make a timeless book— as we May-fly mortals measure time.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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consorting with the composer's familiar fays.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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“So inappropriate,” the black-leather lout sighed, turning suddenly fey.

John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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