pellucid

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And the number of course closures has sped up, averaging 137 closings every year since 2011, data from golf-industry researcher Pellucid show.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2015

Pellucid, pe-lū′sid, adj. perfectly clear: letting light through: transparent.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Pellucid: colored, but transparent: sometimes applied when there is no color.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Dare not, like some, to mince the matter— Nor dazzling tropes and figures scatter, Nor coarsely speak nor basely flatter,       Nor grovelling go: But let plain truths, as Life’s pure water,       Pellucid flow.

From Cottage Poems by Brontë, Patrick

Fifteen years ago few people ever heard of or drank the "Pellucid Ale" without which no tap-room and few middle-class luncheon tables can now be considered complete.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 by Various