Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuento de hadas • relato de fadas
A folktale or literary story featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child.
The Wife of Bathes Tale is evidently a Fairy-tale. It thus commences: In olde dayes of the king Artour, / Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, / All was this land fulfilled of…
fantasía
A story presented as true that is not believable.
He's telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be.
If emigrants will submit to the "fairy tales" of Mr. Thomas, and fall in with his suggestions, they must patiently submit to the disagreeable consequences.
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