sylphish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sylphish (comparative more sylphish, superlative most sylphish)
- (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[.]
References
[edit]- “sylphish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.