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Sylphlike

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Sylph´like`
a.1.Like a sylph; airy; graceful.
Sometimes a dance . . .
Displayed some sylphlike figures in its maze.
- Byron.
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Adj.1.sylphlike - moving and bending with ease
lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, supple, svelte, slender
graceful - characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
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A dozen times (it was at those moments when glimpses of the light, sylphlike form of Inez flitted like some fairy being past the scene of their conferences) the good father fancied he was on the eve of a glorious triumph over infidelity; but all his hopes were frustrated by some unlooked-for opposition, on the part of the subject of his pious labours.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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