"sylphid" meaning in English

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          "text": "He insisted on it, and Lucilia, at length, placed her elegant foot on his hand, and darted so nimbly on horseback, that all her motions gave the idea of one of those sylphids, which imagination paints to us in such delicate colours.",
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          "text": "the palace of the sylphid queen",
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        "A young or little sylph."
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          "text": "He insisted on it, and Lucilia, at length, placed her elegant foot on his hand, and darted so nimbly on horseback, that all her motions gave the idea of one of those sylphids, which imagination paints to us in such delicate colours.",
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