sylphid
Noun
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Noun
sylphid (plural sylphids)
- (poetic) A young or little sylph.
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- 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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