#371 dryad

dryad- Greek myth; a nymph or divinity of the woods

C14 from Latin Dryas, from Greek Druas, from drus tree

There came a score of exquisite women in all the glory of their youth, of perfect physical beauty and splendid strength and fullness of life; and the wonder was not their beauty more than a kind of dryad delicacy of that beauty, which was yet not frailty but a look of angelic strength.

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