What is "diaphanous"

Usage examples of "diaphanous".

A narrow silver circlet held in place a head-rail made of double layers of the diaphanous material she used for her beekeeping veils, which she had dyed a pale lavender.

A second picture showed her emerging from the water on some Bermudan beach, a diaphanous dress clinging around the breasts and thighs.

Sallianna arrayed in all her beauties and attractions, including a huge breastpin, a dress of enormous pattern, and a scarf around her delicate waist, azure-hued and diaphanous like the sky, veiled with an imperceptible cloud.

I was surprised one warm autumn day after lunch in downtown Greenfield, as I was walking back to campus with my blue blazer slung over my shoulder, to be honked out of my reverie by a huge black Lincoln Navigator that swooshed to the curb next to me and revealed its driver to be the ethereal Naomi Cordier, Associate Professor of Dance, clad, as usual, in something diaphanous and floral.

It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.

Dressed not in a diaphanous robe but a pair of overalls, Calliope began to feel very funny indeed.

From one side a slave girl, barefoot, bangled, in sashed, diaphanous, trousered chalwar, gathered at the ankles, in tight, red-silk vest, with bare midriff, fled to him, with the tall, graceful, silvered pot containing the black wine.

I remembered her as one of the slaves who, bangled, in the high, tight vest of red silk, the sashed, diaphanous chalwar, had served wine in the palace of Suleiman at Nine Wells.

From one side a slave girl, barefoot, bangled, in sashed, diaphanous, trousered chalwar, gathered at the ankles, in tight, red-silk vest, with bare midriff, fled to him, with the tall, graceful, silvered pot-containing the black wine.

The foaming material of her dress fell clingingly down her neck and shoulders and swept round her waist in diaphanous curves.

Then, on special occasions, she had customarily donned an easily discardable wool dress and a fine diaphanous undergown of rose-colored Mallorean silk that clung to her as she danced.

Some wonderful red stones, brilliant as rubies, glittered in among the diaphanous black driftings of her dress.

Elise Ashville was too palpably charged with corpuscles and vitamins for that role, and she had not even conceded to the diaphanous nglige which any writer of a certain modern school would have considered a formal necessity for such an occasion.

The developing human being was about two centimeters long, floating inside a diaphanous fluid-filled amniotic sac the size of a plum.

Nell, less strikingly attired in satin and blonde lace, knew that if Lady Chudleigh should be at the masquerade she would unhesitatingly condemn this toilette as being totally unsuited to a young lady in her first season, for it was cut indecorously low, besides being worn over the most diaphanous of petticoats.