korrigan
See also: Korrigan
English
Noun
korrigan (plural korrigans)
- A long-haired nocturnal and often malevolent Breton fairy princess.
- 1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 9:
- A continental Celtic female fairy called a corrigan, malevolent, sometimes seductive.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.ʁi.ɡɑ̃/
Further reading
- “korrigan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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