sylphlike
adjective
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adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English sylph Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English sylphlike From sylph + -like.
- Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful.
“Soon advancing through the hall, he saw the sylphlike figure of the lovely Olympia […]”
“[…] the thin robes Floating like light clouds ’twixt our gaze and heaven; The many-twinkling feet so small and sylphlike, Suggesting the more secret symmetry Of the fair forms which terminate so well—”