translucid

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Background characters are presented as translucid entities reinforcing the idea that most of us, trapped in routinary hells, are already ghosts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023

What I felt after Florence was the translucid calm of the ocean's depth.

From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)

The sheaths of the antennæ, without a wrinkle, without the least derangement, and in their natural place, hang over this dead, translucid face.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

The moment was an enchanting one, the light falling through the translucid leaves and the poet walking up and down carried my thoughts into another age.

From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)

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.

From 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 by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs