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/fˈɛri gˈɑdmˌəðər/ Listen

Fairy godmother

noun

A generous benefactor.

A female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine.

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"Fairy godmother" Quotes from Famous Books

... tree! how charming!" said Miss Meredith; "who is the fairy godmother who is going to give you such a fascinating tree?" And taking up the little wooden tag she read, "St. ...

— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett

... comment on the latter in conclusion, she shook her elfin tresses back over her shoulders with a cunning toss of her head and a glimmering twinkle of her pale bright eyes that somewhat reminded us of the fairy godmother in Cinderella. ...

— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley

... true that the young princess had a fairy godmother—a distant cousin of the deceased queen—but the king could not endure that any one but himself should have a voice in the management of his child, and the fairy godmother, who was accustomed to the ...

— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... buy clothing suitable to her new station, and, when the time came for her triumphant departure to claim her island possessions, went to see her off on the steamer. As long as this little Cinderella lived she never forgot the fairy godmother who had worked this wonderful change ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... they emerged into the open, where the sun shone bright and clothed denuded twigs and trees in the bewitching beauty of a silver thaw. It would always seem to little Hans like a dream of fairyland and she would be remembered as his fairy godmother. It was a pleasant role—that of ...

— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black

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