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What is a sylph?

What is a sylph? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mythology) An invisible being of the air.
  2. The elemental being of air, usually female.
  3. (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
  4. (ornithology) Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.
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In the air and see the sylph Sylphides, in the fire dragons and salamanders, water sirens and mermaids and the earth fairies and gnomes.
On the eve of his wedding, a young Scotsman, James, falls for a sylph, a supernatural creature that he pursues through a mysterious forest.
Over the years she has put on about 130 pounds but still dresses as if she were a sylph.
As I gaze at this slender sylph in front of me, the absurdity of her paranoia gets me thinking that women so often suffer from a distorted view of themselves.
I felt my heart leap in my chest as my eyes sought out a dripping wet sylph sitting in a corner.
She was illuminated now, a little sylph of a woman, perhaps in her mid-thirties, with deep-set eyes and a long Roman nose.

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