sylphid
Noun

sylphid (plural sylphids)

  1. (poetic) A young or little sylph.
    • quote en
    • 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 228744960 ↗, canto II:
      Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear.



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