sylph
IPA: sˈɪɫf
noun
- (mythology) An invisible being of the air.
- The elemental being of air, usually female.
- (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
- (ornithology) Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.
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Examples of "sylph" in Sentences
- Sylphs appear on fairy tales.
- Another name for it is the Heavenly Sylph.
- Here is the main story and theme of Sylph.
- Celia, a sylph, was first seen guarding the air sigil in Dorukan's tower.
- The male long tailed sylph carries characteristic elongated tail feathers.
- A sylph, or forest fairy, gazes lovingly upon him and dances about his chair.
- The Long tailed Sylph is similar in appearance but does not overlap in range.
- The sylph enters during the midst of the revelry and attempts to distract James.
- "A sylph is a fairy made of air who likes to play cruel tricks on little girls."
- But they don't call the sylph-like Ms. Middleton Weighty Katie,'' if you gather my drift.
- Your sylph is a delightful girl, but you must learn to be more light-hearted when you call on her.
- _ -- Another butterfly, but belonging to a widely different group, is the "sylph" (_Hestia Jasonia_), called by the
- "sylph" (_Hestia Jasonia_), called by the Europeans by the various names of _Floater, Spectre, _ and _Silver-paper-fly_, as indicative of its graceful flight.
- Up until the time Clayton arrived, Mother hovered about me like a magic sylph, fluttering her tiny wings, touching a strand of hair here, brushing out a crease there, straightening my necklace and checking to be sure my perfume was not too strong and not too weak.
- The sylph was a winner; and as her taper fingers, delicately gloved in pale-gray, were adjusting the coins which had been pushed toward her in order to pass them back again to the winning point, she looked round her with a survey too markedly cold and neutral not to have in it a little of that nature which we call art concealing an inward exultation.