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

The translucid Towey here wantons in perpetual variety among gay meadows and embowering plantations, where the eye with pleasure traces its fantastic meanders until they disappear behind projecting groves. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

They were of an opaque ivory, translucid, soft under the tool, and with a brown rind, preserving its whiteness and not growing yellow with time like the ivories of other provinces.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules

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)

She gazed at the sky and mountain, the lake and its translucid waves around us.

From Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Lamartine, Alphonse de