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 and light as fairies' wings, The fading clouds descend, Touching with finger tips the strings While leaves on green boughs bend.
From The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg
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
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, desultory thought, in cloudland, counts for little.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
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