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Definition of diaphanous in English: diaphanousadjective dʌɪˈaf(ə)nəsdaɪˈæfənəs (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent. a diaphanous dress of pale gold Example sentencesExamples - Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light.
- Light filters through the diaphanous structure, supplementing cool north light for those exhibits that can be exposed to daylight.
- At every shop window she checked out her reflection and her several diaphanous layers of bold, floral-printed skirt, top and shawl.
- I attended his lectures on perception in the 1960s, and am touched to discover that he, too, was taken in as a child by the illusion that cinema curtains are diaphanous.
- Like Robert Irwin, he uses diaphanous fields to capture light, and hovering surfaces to question the fixity of architectural space.
- Creatures have recognizable parts - but in the sea they can be diaphanous clouds of membrane, without eyes, face, stomach, spine, or brain.
- The canvas is almost 5 feet tall, and it shows her in a light turquoise satin and chiffon dress with short diaphanous sleeves.
- He would ‘flit around the backyard trailing a long piece of diaphanous fabric, in the style of the ballets Russes’.
- When I arrived back at his house, Amy was already wearing her seventies outfit - a knee-length dress of diaphanous purple and blue flowers.
- The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool.
- The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating.
- The house, too, is filled with colour and texture: gold, glitter, satin, lace, feathers, and yards of diaphanous fabric.
- In lingerie, this is expressed by delicate shapes in diaphanous fabrics which flutter around the body.
- Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score.
- Conversation ebbs and flows, and from time to time, our host's wife floats through in her diaphanous dress and offers us cheese straws.
- Women dancers were dressed in diaphanous white frocks with little wings at their waist, and were bathed in the mysterious poetic light created by newly developed gas lighting in theatres.
- The gauzy fabric was extremely soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous.
- A chorus of fairies wafts above the stage, fluttering their diaphanous wings.
- Her taste for wearing loose, diaphanous, white muslin dresses, adopted from Marie Antoinette, gave rise to what became known as the Perdita chemise.
- The first glimpse of what a London Olympics would look like reveals an 80,000-seater stadium with diaphanous roof sections resembling giant insect wings.
Synonyms sheer, fine, ultra-fine, delicate, light, lightweight, thin, insubstantial, floaty, flimsy, filmy, silken, chiffony, gossamer, gossamery, gossamer-thin, gossamer-like, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby, feathery translucent, transparent, see-through rare transpicuous, translucid
Origin Early 17th century: from medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanēs, from dia 'through' + phainein 'to show'. dialogue from Middle English: This comes via Old French and Latin from Greek dialogos, from dialegesthai ‘converse with, speak alternately’: the formative elements are dia- ‘through, across’ and legein ‘speak’. The tendency in English is to confine the sense to a conversation between two people, perhaps by associating the prefix dia- with di-. Dia- is also found in diameter (Late Middle English) ‘the measure across’; diaphanous (early 17th century) ‘shows through’; diaphragm (Late Middle English) a barrier that is literally a ‘fence through’, and diaspora (late 19th century) a scattering across.
Definition of diaphanous in US English: diaphanousadjectivedīˈafənəsdaɪˈæfənəs (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent. a diaphanous dress of pale gold Example sentencesExamples - Her taste for wearing loose, diaphanous, white muslin dresses, adopted from Marie Antoinette, gave rise to what became known as the Perdita chemise.
- Creatures have recognizable parts - but in the sea they can be diaphanous clouds of membrane, without eyes, face, stomach, spine, or brain.
- The gauzy fabric was extremely soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous.
- In lingerie, this is expressed by delicate shapes in diaphanous fabrics which flutter around the body.
- The canvas is almost 5 feet tall, and it shows her in a light turquoise satin and chiffon dress with short diaphanous sleeves.
- The house, too, is filled with colour and texture: gold, glitter, satin, lace, feathers, and yards of diaphanous fabric.
- Conversation ebbs and flows, and from time to time, our host's wife floats through in her diaphanous dress and offers us cheese straws.
- Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score.
- Light filters through the diaphanous structure, supplementing cool north light for those exhibits that can be exposed to daylight.
- Like Robert Irwin, he uses diaphanous fields to capture light, and hovering surfaces to question the fixity of architectural space.
- A chorus of fairies wafts above the stage, fluttering their diaphanous wings.
- Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light.
- The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating.
- The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool.
- The first glimpse of what a London Olympics would look like reveals an 80,000-seater stadium with diaphanous roof sections resembling giant insect wings.
- At every shop window she checked out her reflection and her several diaphanous layers of bold, floral-printed skirt, top and shawl.
- I attended his lectures on perception in the 1960s, and am touched to discover that he, too, was taken in as a child by the illusion that cinema curtains are diaphanous.
- When I arrived back at his house, Amy was already wearing her seventies outfit - a knee-length dress of diaphanous purple and blue flowers.
- Women dancers were dressed in diaphanous white frocks with little wings at their waist, and were bathed in the mysterious poetic light created by newly developed gas lighting in theatres.
- He would ‘flit around the backyard trailing a long piece of diaphanous fabric, in the style of the ballets Russes’.
Synonyms sheer, fine, ultra-fine, delicate, light, lightweight, thin, insubstantial, floaty, flimsy, filmy, silken, chiffony, gossamer, gossamery, gossamer-thin, gossamer-like, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby, feathery
Origin Early 17th century: from medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanēs, from dia ‘through’ + phainein ‘to show’. |