"sylphlike" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley, chapter IV, in St. Irvyne",
          "text": "Soon advancing through the hall, he saw the sylphlike figure of the lovely Olympia […]",
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          "ref": "1821, Lord Byron, Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, act IV, lines 57–61",
          "text": "[…] the thin robes\nFloating like light clouds ’twixt our gaze and heaven;\nThe many-twinkling feet so small and sylphlike,\nSuggesting the more secret symmetry\nOf the fair forms which terminate so well",
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          "ref": "1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994",
          "text": "Once Tex had said to me, very sister-to-sister, “Aren’t we mad, we gay boys, starving ourselves to sylphlike fragility, all so we can attract a straight cop with a beer belly?”",
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          "ref": "2001 December 2, “Emily Eakin, The Way We Live Now: 12-02-01: Phenomenon; Tiny Dancers”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Here we see a few of the 48 diminutive hopefuls who showed up that day, awaiting their turn to impress the judges with a high instep or a particularly sylphlike extension.",
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        "Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful."
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