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sylphlike

adj

Etymology

From sylph + -like.

  1. derived from sylvestris
  2. derived from sylphes
  3. suffixed as sylphlike — “sylph + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling (that of) a sylph

    Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful.

    • Soon advancing through the hall, he saw the sylphlike figure of the lovely Olympia […]
    • […] the thin robes Floating like light clouds ’twixt our gaze and heaven; The many-twinkling feet so small and sylphlike, Suggesting the more secret symmetry Of the fair forms which terminate so well—
    • Arm's length from her he saw the sylphlike grace of her girlish body

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA