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traˈlucent, a. [ad. L. trālūcēnt-em, pr. pple. of trālūcēre: see traluce. So It. tralucente (Florio).] = translucent. Hence † traˈlucently adv. Obs.
1592Kyd Sol. & Pers. ii. i, If loue of this my person,..haue percst through thy tralucent brest. 1597Drayton Heroic. Ep., Edw. IV to Shore's Wife Notes 57 Trees, whose gum is Amber, where Flies alighting are oftentimes tralucently imprisoned. 1608B. Jonson Masque Beauty Wks. (Rtldg.) 548/2 In the centre of the throne was a tralucent pillar, shining with several coloured lights. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 42 They all seem like Fragments of Crystal, or Alum, perfectly Tralucent. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. iv. 932 The benign trees that hung down with tralucent green sprays in the lamplight. 1951― Carnival (rev. ed.) viii. 81 Her hands were long and white; her lips very crimson and tralucent. |