sylphide

See also: Sylphide

English

Noun

sylphide (plural sylphides)

  1. A young sylph.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
      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.

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sil.fid/

Noun

sylphide f (plural sylphides)

  1. female sylph

Further reading

Portuguese

Noun

sylphide f (plural sylphides)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sílfide (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).
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