translucid

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Background characters are presented as translucid entities reinforcing the idea that most of us, trapped in routinary hells, are already ghosts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023

They were of an opaque ivory, translucid, soft under the tool, and with a brown rind, preserving its whiteness and not growing yellow with time like the ivories of other provinces.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules

Though jewels should phosphoric burn Through those night-waters of thine hair, A flower from its translucid urn Poured silver flame more lunar-fair.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

The sky was hard, implacable, without a star, but all the same translucid.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah

We may sometimes succeed in hooking up one of these long vermiform growths, breaking the calcareous sheath, and drawing out a long undulating translucid gelatinous cylinder.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane