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diaphanously
adverb
literaryuk /daɪˈæf.ən.əs.li/ us /daɪˈæf.ən.əs.li/
involving materials that are so delicate and thin that you can see through them:
Diaphanously costumed dancers floated about the stage.
The pancakes themselves are diaphanously light.
She patted her shoulder with a diaphanously gloved hand.
He described an endless summer's evening party, at which diaphanously clad girls drifted by.
He uses a razor blade to slice the garlic so diaphanously thin that it melts in the pan.
It was Mendelssohn’s music that accompanied the diaphanously costumed female fairies in productions of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream".
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