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fairy-tale

adjective [before noun]
 
 
/ˈfeə.ri.teɪl/ US  /ˈfer.i-/ approving

Definition

having a special and attractive or beautiful quality, like something in a fairy tale: They had a fairy-tale wedding. Sadly, there was no fairy-tale happy ending to the story.True, real, false, and unreal
(Definition of fairy-tale adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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