Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Transparently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Translucently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent
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Examples
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Ms. Chapman is the designer behind the five-year-old fashion label, Marchesa, famous for clinging diaphanously to the hips of red carpet-walkers such as Sienna Miller, Scarlett Johansen and Penelope Cruz among a litany of other A-listers.
All in the Family, by Design: Georgina Chapman Buys Jane St. Condo with her Brother 2009
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Stories are embedded within stories like Russian dolls, encompassing every narrative genre from instructive fable to swashbuckling adventure to diaphanously veiled pornography.
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Ms. Chapman is the designer behind the five-year-old fashion label, Marchesa, famous for clinging diaphanously to the hips of red carpet-walkers such as Sienna Miller, Scarlett Johansen and Penelope Cruz among a litany of other A-listers.
All in the Family, by Design: Georgina Chapman Buys Jane St. Condo with her Brother 2009
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The faceted walls dimmed; in front of me they melted, diaphanously, like a gelatinous wall in a blast of flame; through their vanishing, under the torrent of driving light, the unthinkable, impalpable tornado, I began to move, slowly — then ever more swiftly!
The Moon Pool 2004
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This woman, diaphanously cloaked and sensu-ously madeup, represented an entirely more complex challenge.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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"Oh, all of it," she said, and lifted her book, showing a cover with a familiar castle and a diaphanously attired princess.
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Daphne and I both wore gossamer white, and pretended we were naiads or is it dryads? floating diaphanously about.
Dreaming of the Bones Deborah Crombie 1997
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And that's why your legends always give fairies butterfly wings instead of beetle wings which are much more diaphanously beautiful.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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It featured a delicate-looking Conan with a diaphanously draped damsel throwing her arms around his neck as he warded off a flying attacker with an ineffectual knife.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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Color developed in the air, swirling diaphanously.
Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988
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