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elfin

mastery

/ˈɛlfɪn/nounadj

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What does 'elfin' mean in this sentence?

Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.