filmy
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Smoke lent artificial darkness and a filmy quality to the light in areas far from the conflagration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
Retired high court judge Anjana Prakash told HW news that his comment was “dramatic, filmy and laughable and it had brought down the level of judiciary”.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
This filmy mosaic selectively permits charged lithium ions to cross during discharge and controls movement of electrons that supply the battery's power.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
The runway featured a new highly bleached denim, a series of filmy, ruched dresses, and a creative take on sweaters, with long sleeves worn tied around the neck like a scarf.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Though the old stairs sagged beneath us, the stairwell was draped in a filmy light from the open doorway to the floor above.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
The lower sleeves are golden, a line of white at the wrist, and a filmier one within the bodice.
From Holbein by Fortescue, Beatrice
Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the depths of her theatre trunks she produced a bewildering assortment of laces, chiffon, silks, and the filmiest of gauzes.
From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr
Weave, weave, weave, The tiniest thread will do; The filmiest thread from a spider's bed Is stout enough for you.
From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
She was dressed all in white—white ribbons, white sash, white socks and shoes, the softest, filmiest white cobweb dress.
From Maida's Little Shop by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
A white lace overdress of filmiest texture fell over the velvet, almost touching the wreath of lilies, and looked as though it was made of sea foam.
From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Lane, Mary E. Bradley
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