English

Adjective

sylphish ‎(comparative more sylphish, superlative most sylphish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace, Fraser's Magazine

     All these on a neck of snow slight-tinged with rose-bloom, and within it royal Life: amidst the blaze of lustres ; in sylphish movements, espiegleries, coquetries, and minuet-mazes[.]