night-trippingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

night-tripping (not comparable)

1. That trips or moves lightly about at night.
   • 1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20:

     We shall thence pursue our course through Arabia, till we arrive at the middle-age romance of Europe, and the gorgeous realms of Fairy-land; and thence, casting a glance at the "Faerie Queene", advance to the mountains and forests of the North, there to trace the origin of the light-hearted, night-tripping elves.