diaphonous

• Featuring the exhibition of her New Work, McCarty is known for "diaphonous watercolor portraits" and figurative painting. —  art.blogging.la
• It hung, diaphonous, in the dusty perspectives, but it gathered and thickened about the squares and places, and subdued all edges, so that nothing cut or hurt the vision I was glad of that, because I found one of my greatest pleasures in looking at the massed tree-forms in those gardened-groves, which I never penetrated. —  London Films
• Just as dinner was announced, Beth swept into the drawing-room in the best evening dress she had, a diaphonous black, set off by turquoise velvet, a combination which threw the beautiful milk-white of her skin into delicate relief. —  The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
• It hung, diaphonous, in the dusty perspectives, but it gathered and thickened about the squares and places, and subdued all edges, so that nothing cut or hurt the vision. —  London Films
• Coralie, herself, set to the task of winning him, was as unconscious of the subtly diaphonous mechanism of the trap as he. —  Sally Bishop A Romance

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