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Sylphlike

adjective
1.
Moving and bending with ease.  Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte.






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"Sylphlike" Quotes from Famous Books



... large drawing-room with a waxed floor, shouted his name and stood aside to let him pass. It was a reception day. The ladies wearing hats surcharged with a profusion of feathers, sheathed in clinging white gowns from their armpits to the tips of their low satin shoes, looked sylphlike and cool in a great display of bare necks and arms. The men who talked with them, on the contrary, were arrayed heavily in ample, coloured garments with stiff collars up to their ears and thick sashes round their waists. ...
— The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale • Joseph Conrad

... just fat. Come to think of it you are plumper. Not that I mind, but if you're going to keep that sylphlike figure you'd better go ...
— The Lani People • J. F. Bone



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