sylphid

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Come away So, casting one last backward look across the heath, we, under cover of the rock, steal fearfully away across the parquet floor of the gallery CARLOTTA GRISI A COLOURED PRINT It is not among the cardboard glades of the King's Theatre, nor, indeed, behind any footlights, but in a real and twilit garden that Grisi, gimp-waisted sylphid, here skips for posterity.

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  1. noun A young or diminutive sylph.
  2. adjective Relating to or resembling a sylph.

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  • Come away So, casting one last backward look across the heath, we, under cover of the rock, steal fearfully away across the parquet floor of the gallery CARLOTTA GRISI A COLOURED PRINT It is not among the cardboard glades of the King's Theatre, nor, indeed, behind any footlights, but in a real and twilit garden that Grisi, gimp-waisted sylphid, here skips for posterity. —  Yet Again
  • A nymph must rise from the stream, a sylphid from the rose, before I could allow another to steal you from my side. —  Lucretia — Volume 05
  • The palace of the sylphid queen. —  The Culprit Fay and Other Poems
  • But the sylphid charm is strong; —  The Culprit Fay and Other Poems
  • "You fancy you were once a sylphid," said he; "but there are no sylphids, my sweet one, and there is no Summer-land." —  Fairy Book
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  1. French sylphide, from sylphe, sylph, from New Latin sylpha; see sylph.

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  1. = Dutch silfiede = German sylphide = Swedish sylfid = Danish sylfide, from French sylphide = Spanish silfida = Portuguese sylphide; as sylph + -id.
 

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