sylphide

sylphide (plural sylphides)

1. A young sylph.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     When nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina … was most active with her knife and fork, and consumed a very substantial portion of mutton cutlets …

   • 2007 October 20, Anne Midgette, “After 262 Years, a Sylph King’s Debut”, in New York Times‎:

     William Sharp had the fleeting part of Zulim, and Ah Young Hong showed a lovely voice with round, soft low notes and a sugar-sweet top as a nymph and a sylphide.

• IPA^(key): /sil.fid/

sylphide f (plural sylphides)

1. female sylph

• “sylphide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

sylphide f (plural sylphides)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of sílfide.