sylph
noun
a slender, graceful woman or girl.
sylphlike
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a word derived from
sylph.
Example Sentences
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“The Dick Van Dyke Show” made Ms. Moore, who looked sylphlike in capri pants, a sensation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
The parties you have scribbled in your calendar seem more glittery or interesting or fun, and you in the shoes, more daunting, more sylphlike, more free, more invulnerable.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2012
Most of it was shot in California, where Hepburn — then a brand-new mother, despite her sylphlike shape — relocated to Coldwater Canyon.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2010
When Nadia tried to re-create her glory in 1980, audiences hardly recognized the once sylphlike pixie.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had red cheeks and was ashamed of them, and my stocky, square-shouldered figure was anything but sylphlike.
From Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
