diaphanous
Collocations
4ADJ.
green, meaner, over
VERB + DIAPHANOUS
eyes, whisper
DIAPHANOUS + NOUN
crystal, glass, silk
PREP.
than
Definitions
adj
Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.
Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.
1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169, The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower.
1963, Hermann Weyl, quoted in 1985, Floyd Merrell, Deconstruction Reframed, page 67, What is amazing is that "a concept that is created by mind itself, the sequence of integers, the simplest and most diaphanous thing for the constructive mind, assumes a similar aspect of obscurity and deficiency when viewed from the axiomatic angle" (Weyl, 1963, 220).
Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.
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6The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inlan
WiktionaryAdam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.
WiktionaryBut nonetheless the purpleness of the imagined purple cow will almost certainly be meaner, more diaphanous, more fleeting than any real-life purple that you ever saw: to imagine a purple cow is just n
WiktionaryI am completely agog over your diaphanous dress.
Tatoeba · #529643This diaphanous glass is green and blue.
Tatoeba · #9647516The butterfly's wings look like the petals of a diaphanous flower.
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