sylphidic

comparative more sylphidic · superlative most sylphidic

1. Of or resembling a sylphid

   This was a woman no longer young, not beautiful, and certainly not sylphidic.

   1997, A History of European Folk Music, page 207

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   I understand he inturbidates your sylphidic hopes with his intinerating influence by inturbidating my vows to you.

   1911, A Guide Into the South, page 33

   A few lines from you would have erected a sylphidic bridge over the chasms that are part and parcel of any journey.

   1994, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940, page 252

   These youths would have been called ephebic or even sylphidic at the humanist grammar schools of the time.

   2022, Why Art Criticism? A Reader, page 400