Did you mean diaphanous?
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Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin diaphanus, transparent, from Greek diaphanēs, from diaphainein, to be transparent : dia-, dia- + phainein, phan-, to show; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“I only made it through the first ten minutes - it seemed to involve a lot of diaphonous drapery.”
“I just see mantras about this diaphonous "center" that, in the way you use it, seems to mean simply "that which would command a majority", but could also be interpreted as "I am conservative, and trying to bargain with increasingly strident opposition”
“My masque's eyepieces are made from illum crystal, the perfect substance for capturing and magnifying the diaphonous tendrils of the visible Force.”
“Some writers have muses with raven tresses, diaphonous gowns, supple breasts and ruby lips.”
“In a diaphonous light, eight dogs rest on seven magnificent chairs.”
“In place of her somber “end of the world” garment, there was a diaphonous Greek chiton that seemed to have been spun from the sheerest thread—from cobwebs.”
“A darling bundle of hot pink Gerbera daisies and satiny white mums and delicate greens, bound with a diaphonous moss green ribbon.”
“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
“Coralie, herself, set to the task of winning him, was as unconscious of the subtly diaphonous mechanism of the trap as he.”
“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.”
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andrew.simone Don't you mean diaphanous? Dec 5, 2006