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Webster 1913 Edition
Sylphish
Sylph′ish
,Adj.
Sylphlike.
Carlyle.
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sylphish
sylphish
English
Adjective
sylphish (comparative more sylphish, superlative most sylphish)
- Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace, 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[.]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace, Fraser's Magazine