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語源

goblin +‎ -ry

名詞

goblinry (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 goblinries)

1. The doings or character of goblins.

   tales of goblinry

   • 1830, Walter Scott, The Doom of Devorgoil Act III, Scene 1, in Lyrics, Dramas and Miscellaneous Pieces, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875, p. 276,^[1]

     But is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?

   • 1890, Lafcadio Hearn, Two Years in the French West Indies, New York: Harper, “La Guiablesse,” p. 185,^[2]

     These [illuminated shrines] are good ghostly company for him;— […] they appear to cheer him voicelessly as he strides from gloom to gloom, under the goblinry of those woods which tower black as ebony under the stars....

   • 1938, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Maze of Maâl Dweb” in A Rendezvous in Averoigne: Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1988, p. 254,^[3]

     There were quaint paths, pillared with antic trees, latticed with drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry.

アナグラム

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