filmy
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Filmy white curtains often substitute for walls, filtering light and mixing the silhouettes of sculptures and viewers in fleeting tableaus.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2018
Filmy threads of gossamer floated through the air, suffused with a soft golden glow.
From When Dreams Come True by Berger, William Merritt
Filmy shadows fell over her hair and down her strong young arms like priceless lace.
From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Garland, Hamlin
Filmy and evanescent, if he had sunk down as through a transparency into the void, it would not have been wonderful.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William
Filmy shadows fall from the trees without, gradually outlining themselves upon the walls of the room, and the steps from the verandah.
From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Piffard, Harold
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