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Meanings of diaphanous in English

So thin as to transmit light.

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Usage of diaphanous in English
1
Eyes pale blue, and prominent; body nearly diaphanous, with pale red spots.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
2
By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.
Autobiography of a Yogi
3
Thirty-foot diaphanous silk curtains parted in the draught, and they passed through.
Anno Dracula
4
Some have their skeletons coloured with a diaphanous violet marked with white.
Letters of a Soldier, 1914-1915
5
Liberty, in diaphanous draperies, leaps from cloud to cloud, lovely and unapproachable.
The Tyranny Of Words
6
She is so slender, so light, so filmy, she must be diaphanous.
Adieu
7
There was nothing about her diaphanous, nothing undecided, nothing floating, no mist.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
8
The delicacy of the features was extreme; the forehead seemed diaphanous.
Beatrix
9
Nor is it as diaphanous as you might hope from inside.
The Guardian
10
Our bodies are light; the texture, apparently firm and resisting, is somehow diaphanous.
The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars / Being the Posthumous Pa...
11
Berenice was so beautiful in a storm of diaphanous clinging garments.
The Titan
12
Near him, in the diaphanous white of a guardian angel, was a nurse.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
13
Then I imagine a diaphanous veil falling across the rest of my presentation.
Lit: a memoir
14
The leaves were just enough developed to make a diaphanous lacework of green.
The Financier: A Novel
15
The kind of bench which Alma-Tadema usually fills with diaphanous maidens.
The Lure of the Mask
16
Her sister was there, across the room, dressed in an identical diaphanous shift.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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