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

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 translucid Towey here wantons in perpetual variety among gay meadows and embowering plantations, where the eye with pleasure traces its fantastic meanders until they disappear behind projecting groves. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

Under its fine translucid skin there is nothing coloured, save the long digestive pouch, which is swollen a deep purple by the pulp of the consumed Crickets.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The golden afternoon sun lay all around and everything was radiant with translucid green.

From The Path of Life by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander