Sentence example with the word 'diaphanous'

diaphanous

airy, crystal-clear, fine-drawn, gracile, lucent, rare, slenderish, svelte, threadlike, wasp-waisted

Definition adj. so thin as to transmit light

Last update: August 22, 2016


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The first and most notable is that the great majority of fairies are not tiny pretty beings with diaphanous wings.   [adjective]

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The village smoke then hangs a few feet above the earth like a blue-grey diaphanous cloud.   [Please select]

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Included are figures of ancient Egyptian royalty in diaphanous gowns, Greek peasants and Roman senators in traditional draped attire.   [adjective]

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She needed not to discover the pestilential spots beneath that semi-diaphanous cambric which hung loose upon the muscular frame, to be convinced of the cruel fact.   [adjective]

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This Bizen-yaki was red stoneware, with this diaphanous glaze.   [Please select]

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The kind of bench which Alma-Tadema usually fills with diaphanous maidens.   [Please select]

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In the gloom the girls' wraps glowed pallid and diaphanous.   [Please select]

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Was it a bit of diaphanous down stirred by my breath.   [Please select]

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The Old Muslin I call him, because he's so diaphanous.   [Please select]

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