A fairy tale is an old magic story for children. A fairy tale ending.
Most were told to adults for centuries before anybody wrote them down for children. The printed versions are far gentler than the ones collected in the nineteenth century.
1phrasefairy taleAn old magic story for children, ending happily ever after.
“The fairy tale in the old collection ends with nobody surviving.”
fairy tale is a story.
A translation of French conte de fees, coined in the late seventeenth century.
French
conte de fées
English, today
fairy tale
French conte de fées, coined by Q260006 in in the late 17th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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