diaphanous
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Diaphanous, the petals harness light’s visual capacities to appeal to the sense of touch, not just sight.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
Diaphanous gold and black chiffon dresses, bound with winding ribbons, pleated and worn with metallic cithara garlands.
From New York Times • May 30, 2017
Diaphanous, dī-af′a-nus, adj. shining or appearing through, transparent, clear—also Diaphan′ic.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Diaphanous, a wire hawser had been lowered from the bows of the airship and made fast to the tramp's after-winch.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
The Di down there is the Diaphanous, too.
From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)
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