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Definition of 'ouphe'English
Alternative forms
* aulf
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete) A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.
* 1602 , '', Act 5, Scene 4, 1768, John Baskerville, Alexander Pope (editors), ''The Works of Shakespear , Volume 1, page 301 ,
- Strew good luck, ouphes , on every ?acred room, / That it may ?tand 'till the perpetual Doom, / In ?tate as whol?om, as in ?tate 'tis fit; / Worthy the owner, as the owner it.
* 1835', , ''The Culprit Fay'', '''1899 , ''The Culprit Fa[y] , page 4 ,
- For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow; / He has loved an earthly maid, / And left for her his woodly shade;
* 1835 , Review of The Culprit Fay and Other Poems'' by Joseph Rodman Drake and ''Alnwick Castle'' by Fitz-Greene Halleck, ''Southern Literary Messenger , Volume 2, page 329 ,
- The plot is as follows. An Ouphe , one of the race of Fairies, has "broken his vestal vow,"in short, he has broken Fairy-law in becoming enamored of a mortal.
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