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sylph

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sylph  (slf)
n.
1. A slim, graceful woman or girl.
2. In the occult philosophy of Paracelsus, a being that has air as its element.
[New Latin sylpha, perhaps blend of Latin sylvestris, of the forest (from silva, sylva, forest) and Latin nympha, nymph; see nymph.]
sylph
Noun
1. a slender graceful girl or young woman
2. an imaginary creature believed to live in the air [New Latin sylphus]
sylphlike adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sylph - a slender graceful young woman
adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
2.sylph - an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
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He tells how her guardian sylph brings a morning dream to warn her of coming danger.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber- room full of old chairs and tables upside down.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
Suddenly a door opened, the draught caught up the little Dancer, and off she flew like a sylph to the Tin-soldier in the stove, burst into flames--and that was the end of her
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
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