diaphanous

• Their edges gone diaphanous, all smoke and luminous mother of pearl, bulky clouds had closed in around the moon, framing it in glowing complexity, like angels heralding a glorious birth in a Rafael or a Titian. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
• The light engendered melody, the melody engendered light; the colours were light and melody, the movement was number endowed with speech; in fine, all was at once sonorous, diaphanous, mobile; so that, all things interpenetrating each other, distance was without obstacles, and might be traversed by the angels throughout the depths of the infinite. —  Balzac
• Her dress was not diaphanous, and not extravagant; she wore no jewelry except a heavy gold chain reaching from her shoulders to her waist, long earrings of aquamarine, plain gold bangles on her wrists, and one heavy jeweled bracelet on her right ankle. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
• The bed was tremendous, each one of its four posts bigger than her waist; the beautifully pleated tester had soft, sheer rose-colored curtains tied back with dark green cords and tassels As Juliette mopped her throat and chest with a damp cambric kerchief, her temper mounted and her patience grew as frail as the diaphanous mosquito baire draping from the frame over her bed. —  New Page 1
• Coverdale, being merely the medium for impressions of the other characters, is necessarily light and diaphanous, and Hawthorne, finding it more convenient, and an advantage to the lifelikeness of the story, does not attempt to hold him up in the air all the time, but lets him down now and then, and assumes the part himself. —  A Study Of Hawthorne

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