What does goblinry mean?
Goblinry means The doings or character of goblins..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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, But is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?
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....
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.
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Goblinry means The doings or character of goblins..
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tales of goblinry
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