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Topic: FOLKLORE

Date: 1600-1700
Language: Modern Latin
Origin: sylphus; probably an invented word

sylph

 noun
     
sylph [countable]
1 literary an attractively thin woman
2RF an imaginary female creature who lived in the air, according to ancient stories
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