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- noun Plural form of
sylph .
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Examples
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Unlike their elemental cousins—those gentler sylphs of wind and fire—battlers find no joy in everyday labor.
New Releases: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy & Paranormal Romance for the week of February 23, 2010 Donna 2010
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And (just as an add-on) you get some of those strands that have woven themselves back together into the semblance of agency, the sylphs.
Archive 2008-05-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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So surely we can cut those wispy little sylphs some slack when they want to kick back every now and again and do some floor routines to piano arrangements of seventies commercials, from the very excellent album Commercial Break.
Commercial Break for Gymnasts baikinange 2010
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Unlike their elemental cousins—those gentler sylphs of wind and fire—battlers find no joy in everyday labor.
Archive 2010-02-01 Donna 2010
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So surely we can cut those wispy little sylphs some slack when they want to kick back every now and again and do some floor routines to piano arrangements of seventies commercials, from the very excellent album Commercial Break.
Archive 2010-01-01 splogman 2010
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And now we have Madonna, queen of the ageless sylphs.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Unretouched Madonna Pics Leaked, Turns Out She's Not Immune to Aging After All Charlotte Hilton Andersen 2010
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And now we have Madonna, queen of the ageless sylphs.
Unretouched Madonna Pics Leaked, Turns Out She's Not Immune to Aging After All 2010
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Early on she survived by illustrating Macy's ads sketching handbags, clouds of perfume, sylphs in fur hats or bathing suits work she disliked but that bore connections to her uncanny canvases of girls with flying hair and writhing garments.
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And now we have Madonna, queen of the ageless sylphs.
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And (just as an add-on) you get some of those strands that have woven themselves back together into the semblance of agency, the sylphs.
Lost in Translation Hal Duncan 2008
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