semitransparent

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Stephen Carney, the cemetery’s command historian, told the committee about a previous plan Arlington National Cemetery’s staff had envisioned, involving a “semitransparent” viewing panel that would, in a sense, transport visitors back in time.

From Washington Post

Another work, “Inverted Monument,” looks like an upside-down statue trapped inside a semitransparent pedestal, and is made of extruded thermoplastic polyester threads.

From New York Times

The curtain of “Cloak” is semitransparent — it allows vision and blocks it at the same time, and, if people step behind it, functions as a sort of hiding place.

From New York Times

Then she began complicating the spatial play by extending hundreds of lengths of string diagonally out from the wall and attaching them to the floor, producing cascading forms that looked both densely streamlined and semitransparent.

From New York Times

Irene enters the tearoom with palpable wariness, her gait slowed, head down and face partly obscured by the semitransparent brim of her cloche hat.

From New York Times