What is "filmy"

Usage examples of "filmy".

Birdsong tucked up her hair in a careless knot, and reached out her arms for the filmy wrap Bena had brought from the guest room.

The smell of spring was in the air, and filmy silvery mist had begun to float off the dark bogland in vanishing wreaths, soft and dim as the frail sloe-blossom, already stolen out over the writhen black branches up on the ridge.

On the hillside the withering ferns spread a mantle of rich bronze over the turf as far as their eyes could see through the fine, filmy haze which hung over all the landscape, and filled up the valley of Cloverley beneath them, until it looked like a calm, white lake of vapour, surrounded by the summits of the mountains.

On either side of the bed, Empire rock crystal lamps sat atop magnificent Louis XV tables, one a graceful fruitwood parquetry with a leather writing surface called a table ecrire, the other a small oval-shaped piece with a drawer originally intended for filmy lingerie and consequently called a table en chiffonnigre.

The filmy muslin curtains around the bed stirred gently in the soft breeze, and beyond the open louvered doors leading out to the terrace the sky had turned to a deep pavonian blue.

The salesgirl, very sexily dressed and made up, just smiled as Minni showed me crotchless panties, bras with holes for the nipples to show through, filmy nightgowns, garters, patterned nylons, very short tight skirts only about 10-inches from waist to hem, see-through blouses, and all sorts of other stuff.

There were black nunlike forms of cypress trees also, which stood grouped together as if looking down thoughtfully from their tall slopes, and old, wide-branching olives were filmy as a gray cloud in the darkness.

But the other gave less heed to Rosinante, fixed the filmy lustre of his eyes on me, his wonderful young face veiled with that wisdom which is in all children, and of an immutable gravity.

Then, at length, the moon abruptly soared zenithward from out the veiling mist, passing from one filmy haze to another.

A gauzy veil, like that worn by beekeepers, had been sewn to the curve of the brim, and its filmy drape made it impossible for Alain see his face.

After the darkness of that room, the corridor seemed full of grey filmy light, as though dream-spiders had joined the walls with their cobwebs, in which innumerable white moths, so tiny that they could not be seen, were struggling.

Sharpe tried to count them, but there were just too many men and horses flowing through the filmy drifts of gun smoke.

Meggie was stripped to her petticoat and chemise and stockings, stood upon a small dais, measured, large swatches of material draped over her, from the filmiest silks to the most brilliant and shimmery satins, all with Uncle Douglas looking on, making comments, stroking his jaw, looking like a man in charge of an army, and every soldier in that army was ready to do his bidding.

Carefully unrolling the manuscript, Reeves was amazed to find two sheets of the filmy paper covered with strange, undecipherable marks.

The filmy slices of pale flesh had been artistically arranged in the form of a flying crane.