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Sylphish

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike. archaic

    "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[.]"

Etymology

From sylph + -ish.

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