filmy

Eventually her costume provides those around her with filmy plumes, to no pointed effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The only ones I tend to avoid are neutral vegetable oil, which can make the whole thing feel a little filmy, and coconut oil, unless that is a flavor you specifically want to chase.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Curiously, the style game of Punjabi musicians - from hip-hop, R&B, bhangra pop, fusion, Punjabi rap, reggae or filmy music - has also remained rooted and androgynous, instead of being hyper masculine.

From BBC ● May 31, 2025

It reveals mostly close-ups of the singers, often as filmy cameos like you might see in old silents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024

It was chilly away from the fire, the leaded glass not doing much to keep winter at bay, and when she pulled the filmy curtain to the side and looked out, she spied a man.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

The lower sleeves are golden, a line of white at the wrist, and a filmier one within the bodice.

From Holbein by Beatrice Fortescue

Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was dressed all in white—white ribbons, white sash, white socks and shoes, the softest, filmiest white cobweb dress.

From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore

A white lace overdress of filmiest texture fell over the velvet, almost touching the wreath of lilies, and looked as though it was made of sea foam.

From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Mary E. Bradley Lane

Science can now educe threads of such exquisite tenuity that only the feet of the tiniest infant-spiders can ascend them; but up the filmiest insubstantiality Shelley runs with agile ease. 

From Shelley; an essay by Francis Thompson

Sitting opposite each other like this it is quite unnecessary to draw the filmiest veil over our souls, or to hide a corner of them from one another.

From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann