Meaning of sylphlike | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful.

Examples

“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—”

“Arm's length from her he saw the sylphlike grace of her girlish body”

“Once Tex had said to me, very sister-to-sister, “Aren’t we mad, we gay boys, starving ourselves to sylphlike fragility, all so we can attract a straight cop with a beer belly?””

“Here we see a few of the 48 diminutive hopefuls who showed up that day, awaiting their turn to impress the judges with a high instep or a particularly sylphlike extension.”

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