Meaning of sylphid | Babel Free

Definitions

A young or little sylph.

poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear.”

“He insisted on it, and Lucilia, at length, placed her elegant foot on his hand, and darted so nimbly on horseback, that all her motions gave the idea of one of those sylphids, which imagination paints to us in such delicate colours.”

“the palace of the sylphid queen”

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