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

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

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

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

From The Path of Life by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

In the hills of Cabo Blanco there are found among the gneiss, angular masses of opaque quartz, slightly translucid on the edges, and varying from grey to deep black.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von