Diaphanous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIAPHANOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• transparent, translucent
• (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent
• Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
• so thin as to transmit light
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through

Words related to DIAPHANOUS

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Words that contain DIAPHANOUS

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How to use DIAPHANOUS in a sentence

• A plume of steam that looked faint and diaphanous in the strong light blew away from the noisy machine.
• The voices rose with the clouds of incense which threw diaphanous, bluish veils over the quaint marvels of the architecture.
• Only the winding and twining diaphanous veils played where he feared she might have been visible.
• Only in this case the morning sun and more diaphanous curtains lent an air of brightness, further enhanced by a wire stand of flowers in the bow-windows.
• It was certainly a diaphanous thing of many layers of chiffon, graduating in colour from flame to palest apricot pink.
• It was due to the sheer shock of delight that thrilled audience after audience as it beheld her loveliness enhanced by this floating, diaphanous tulle cloud.
• Her white arm gleamed in the gathering dusk, and she was dressed in some diaphanous blue stuff that enhanced the bronze of her hair.
• The new one was of the finest silk, diaphanous, and thus to be worn only at night.
• In the turquoise sky overhead, the moving clouds changed in hue from crimson to silver, and straggling flecks, like diaphanous ribbons, became stained with mottled dyes.
• The clouds became illumined with an interior flame and glowed like diaphanous mists of gold half concealing the vague faces of the beauteous spirits of the dead.
• Even in the dark he could see that a diaphanous gauze of dust overhung it and the air was heavy with the most volatile particles.
• Herschel sought whether a spherical demi-envelop of luminous matter, and yet diaphanous, would not lead to a natural explanation of the phenomenon.
• At length, a faint quivering of moving blood was seen in the diaphanous veins of the lungs.
• Now they were diaphanous blue on the horizon, now soft purple as we ran under their flanks.
• Susanna, in her diaphanous light-coloured frock, leaned back, smiling.
• Diaphanous material was sometimes used for part of the covering of the upper part of the body, as in the case of some of the figures from the Knossos frescoes.
• Beneath it she had been wearing a white silk blouse, and the delicate pink of her arms and throat was revealed now through its diaphanous sheen.
• Then like a butterfly, this diaphanous creature emerged, fair and youthful, clothed in white linen, an Indian from creation issuing her palms.
• On the stern of the second was a lantern like those of the ancients, industriously made with diaphanous stone, implying that they were to pass by Lanternland.
• Some of the latter were so diaphanous as to be perfectly invisible when immersed in the water.
• The diaphanous quality of the girlish costume is skilfully worked out, as are also the accessories of the room.
• Posterior wings with a white, partly diaphanous spot, close to the base, and a transverse diaphanous band a little beyond the middle.
• The drawing-room was filled with blossoming plants, and the diaphanous curtains which Blue-eyed Mary had hung at the windows blew softly in the breeze.
• There was nothing about her diaphanous, nothing undecided, nothing floating, no mist.
• Upon this hand, white, cold and diaphanous, as if it had been sculptured in alabaster, shone a ring, set with an amethyst of unusual size.
• She is so slender, so light, so filmy, she must be diaphanous.

Similar words containing DIAPHANOU without suffix s

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