0 (of a woman or girl) attractively thin and delicate
I had red cheeks and was ashamed of them, and my stocky, square-shouldered figure was anything but sylphlike.
It is one of the commonest delusions among fat men that horseback riding will bring them down and make them sylphlike and willowy.
Their gross exaggeration was fondly counted upon to make her appear sylphlike by comparison with the images she raised.
For at this writing in those parts the slender, sylphlike string-bean is not playing a minor part, as with us.
