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Girl with slender figure
Answer for the clue "Girl with slender figure ", 5 letters:
sylph
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sylph \Sylph\, n. [F. sylphe, m., fr. Gr. ? a kind of grub, beetle, or moth; -- so called by Paracelsus.] An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy. Fig.: A slender, graceful woman. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "air-spirit," from Modern Latin sylphes (plural), coined 16c. by Paracelsus (1493-1541), originally referring to any race of spirits inhabiting the air, described as being mortal but lacking a soul. Paracelsus' word seems to be an arbitrary coinage, ...
Usage examples of sylph.
Instead of Sylvia, he called her Sylph,--with the prerogative of a cousin and a lover,--his dear Sylph Etherege.
It was just like the night she thought she had dreamed, when the Sylph gave her that warning, when she had been so very frightened.
Previously she had often visited us at the farm, but since the death of Sylph she had not come near us.
Kennard indoors, the old Squire and Addison and I smuggled the colt into the little stable and put her in the same stall where Sylph had once stood.
There was fear in its eyes, fear of something other than the sylph and her bridle of spun gold, fear of something beyond her comprehension.
But if Ben could reach the sylph first, he could prevent that from happening.
What if I were to tell you that I intend to get all of that back from him, but that to do so I need to find a sylph who in turn searches for a black unicorn?
He had made the trip down into the lake country on several occasions since that first meeting with Willow, but each time it had been in the company of the sylph or Questor Thews, and one of the fairy people had always met them.
It made Ben wonder suddenly about his own feelings for the sylph and question what they were.
He searched for the sylph through the forests, hills, and plains of Landover, a solitary quest that drew him on as a magnet would iron.
The danger to the sylph became real once more, as if somehow resurrected by his indecision.
A vision of the sylph blossomed in his mind, a frail and beautiful creature whose life was his special charge.
The sylph tore away from the black unicorn and stumbled back, almost blacking out with the intensity of what she had experienced.
Ebany walked, the Wildfolk went with him, sylph, sprite, and gnome, and in the water undines, rising up to beckon him into the waves.
By the time the moment arrived for the actual appearance of the Sylph, her happiness was bubbling out of her like an effervescent spring bubbling into life after being frozen over during the winter.