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Definition of Sylphine
1. a. Like a sylph.
Definition of Sylphine
1. Adjective. (rare) sylphic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sylphine
1. pertaining to a sylph [adj] - See also: sylph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sylphine
Literary usage of Sylphine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Racing Calendar for (1865)
"Sylvia, by Vedette, out of sylphine bf Vesta, by Vedette, out of sylphine Ld
Derby's bc by Stockwell, out of Sortie ch. c. St. Leger, by De Clare, ..."
2. Popular Studies of Nineteenth Century Poets by Marshall Mather (1892)
"sylphine thoughts are set to sylphine words, their music floating towards us like
the murmur of a distant sea, the strains whereof, rising and falling and ..."
3. Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries: In by Thomas Henry Taunton (1888)
"... Speed-the- Plough, and six others, not placed ; 6 to 4 against Dagobert, 4 to
i against Speed-the-Plough, and 5 to i each against Orestes and sylphine. ..."
4. Racing Calendar for (1865)
"Sylvia, by Vedette, out of sylphine bf Vesta, by Vedette, out of sylphine Ld
Derby's bc by Stockwell, out of Sortie ch. c. St. Leger, by De Clare, ..."
5. Popular Studies of Nineteenth Century Poets by Marshall Mather (1892)
"sylphine thoughts are set to sylphine words, their music floating towards us like
the murmur of a distant sea, the strains whereof, rising and falling and ..."
6. Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries: In by Thomas Henry Taunton (1888)
"... Speed-the- Plough, and six others, not placed ; 6 to 4 against Dagobert, 4 to
i against Speed-the-Plough, and 5 to i each against Orestes and sylphine. ..."
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