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English
Etymology
From sylph + -ish.
Adjective
sylphish (comparative more sylphish, superlative most sylphish)
- (archaic) Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.
1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in 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[.]
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