sylph

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A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people

Her heart fluttered with expectation---her step was buoyant with hope, and she sprung into the carriage with the lightness of a sylph. — Mary Brunton (1778-1818), Self-Control: A Novel.

The elemental being of air, usually female
A wood nymph
a slender, graceful young woman or girl
{n} a kind of fairy nymph, a woodnymph
Fig
Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus)
an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
A slender, graceful woman
an elemental being believed to inhabit the air a slender graceful young woman
An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy
an "entity" or "elemental" that dwells in the plane of Air or is associated with the AIR Element
A slender girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people
a slender graceful young woman
{i} being that inhabits the air (Mythology); slim and graceful woman or girl
sylphlike
of or pertaining to a sylph
Sylphlike
sylphish
sylphlike
slender and graceful
sylphlike
Like a sylph; airy; graceful
sylphlike
a sylphlike woman is attractively thin and graceful
sylphs
plural of sylph
sylph

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    Etymologie

    [ 'silf ] (noun.) 1657. First attested in 1657. From New Latin sylphes, coined by Paracelsus in the 16th century. The coinage may derive from sylva and nympha.
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