Diaphanous

Word of the Day for Monday 16^th November 2015

Diaphanous \ dahy-af-uh-nuh s

Adjective 1. very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent. 2. delicately hazy.

Quotes

As the audience enters, the diaphanous curtains onstage are gently blowing  in the breezes of the Amalfi coast. -- Janice Kaplan, Tennessee Williams' Forgotten Masterpiece, 2011

Origin

C17: from Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanēs transparent, from  diaphainein to show through, from dia- + phainein to show

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