meaning of diaphanous
1. Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
2. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous
">silks"
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