sylphish

adj

sylphish

adj

Etymology From sylph + -ish.

1

Archaic Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.

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[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in Fraser's Magazine:

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