The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sylphid \Sylph"id\, n. [F. sylphide, fem. See Sylph.]
A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. ``The place of
the sylphid queen.''
--J. R. Drake.
Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear,
Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
younger or smaller variety of sylph, 1670s, from French sylphide (1670s), from sylphe (see sylph) + diminutive suffix.
Wiktionary
n. (context poetic English) A young or little sylph.
Usage examples of "sylphid".
With warblings wild they lead him on To where through clouds of amber seen, Studded with stars, resplendent shone The palace of the sylphid queen.
It is to throw away the healthful objects of life for a diseased dream,--worse than the Rosicrucians, it is to make a sacrifice of all human beauty for the smile of a sylphid that never visits us but in visions.
She was taller than any other female habiline, but her tallness was of the sylphid kind, loose and willowy.
Olympia, which, light and symmetrical as a celestial sylphid, passed swiftly onwards.
Stars and flowers of crystal were strewed around, and the grotto looked like a fit abode for sylphids or fairies.