sylphish

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English

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Etymology

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From sylph +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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sylphish (comparative more sylphish, superlative most sylphish)

  1. (archaic) Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in Fraser's Magazine:
      All these on a neck of snow slight-tinged with rose-bloom, and within it royal Life: amidst the blaze of lustres ; in sylphish movements, espiegleries, coquetries, and minuet-mazes[.]

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