Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Translucent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Translucent.
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- adjective
translucent
Etymologies
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Examples
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The 1816 Encyclopaedia Britannica said it was fluid of the purest and most translucid nature.
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FLAKE is inspired by the technology of the manufacturing of styrofoam and plays with the translucid surface of this structure.
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Of decidedly original design, this is a vehicle that has no desire to look like other cars which depend on “black gold”: priority has been given to integration of the photovoltaic cells which compose its translucid roof.
Awesome Wind and Solar Powered Hybrid ”Eclectic” By Venturi | Impact Lab 2006
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The moon was glass-bright, translucid, shimmering, sometimes going dark and emerging again among the shadows.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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When well-cooked brew has been kept for a few months, it assumes a translucid amber color, smells and tastes strongly of rum, and is highly intoxicating.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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Giovanni Pisano made some translucid enamels for the decorations of the high altar in Florence, and also a jewelled clasp to embellish the robe of a statue of the Virgin.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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This city, therefore, like a mighty galleon with all her apparel mounted, streamers flying, and tackling perfect, seems floating along the noiseless depths of ocean: and oftentimes in glassy calms, through the translucid atmosphere of water that now stretches like an air-woven awning above the silent encampment, mariners from every clime look down into her courts and terraces, count her gates, and number the spires of her churches.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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Blue berries are plentiful in some parts of the district; there is a peculiar variety of them, which I preferred to any fruit I ever tasted; it is about the size of a musket-ball, of a purple colour, translucid, and in its taste sweet and acid are deliciously blended.
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. John M'lean
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Edward II. sends to the Pope in 1317, among other gifts, a golden ewer and basin, studded with translucid enamels, supplied by Roger de Frowyk, a London goldsmith, for the price of one hundred and forty-seven pounds, Humphrey de Bohun, who died in 1361, said his prayers to beads of gold; Edward
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The golden afternoon sun lay all around and everything was radiant with translucid green.
The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920
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