diaphanously

• “Ms. Chapman is the designer behind the five-year-old fashion label, Marchesa, famous for clinging diaphanously to the hips of red carpet-walkers such as Sienna Miller, Scarlett Johansen and Penelope Cruz among a litany of other A-listers.”

  All in the Family, by Design: Georgina Chapman Buys Jane St. Condo with her Brother

• “Stories are embedded within stories like Russian dolls, encompassing ­every narrative genre from ­instructive fable to swashbuckling adventure to diaphanously veiled pornography.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Old Tales That Still Seduce

• “The faceted walls dimmed; in front of me they melted, diaphanously, like a gelatinous wall in a blast of flame; through their vanishing, under the torrent of driving light, the unthinkable, impalpable tornado, I began to move, slowly — then ever more swiftly!”

  The Moon Pool

• “This woman, diaphanously cloaked and sensu-ously madeup, represented an entirely more complex challenge.”

  The Chronicles of Riddick

• “Oh, all of it," she said, and lifted her book, showing a cover with a familiar castle and a diaphanously attired princess.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “Daphne and I both wore gossamer white, and pretended we were naiads or is it dryads? floating diaphanously about.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dreaming of the Bones

• “And that's why your legends always give fairies butterfly wings instead of beetle wings which are much more diaphanously beautiful.”

  The Complete Stories Vol 1

• “It featured a delicate-looking Conan with a diaphanously draped damsel throwing her arms around his neck as he warded off a flying attacker with an ineffectual knife.”

  The Conan Chronicles

• “Color developed in the air, swirling diaphanously.”

  Robot Adept

• “Bee likes to make a dramatic entrance, and often relates in tones of positive awe how she once saw a Frenchwoman in an opera-cloak composed entirely of white tulle run the whole length of the Grand Opera House in Paris in order to make the tulle, which was cut to resemble wings, float out diaphanously behind her.”

  At Home with the Jardines

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