1. diaphanous - Adjective
2. diaphanous - Adjective Satellite
Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws. S. J. Perelman
Over the sturdy nakedness of truth the diaphanous veil of phantasy. José Maria Eça de Queiroz
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm. Gabriel García Márquez
a hat with a diaphanous veil Source: Internet
filmy wings of a moth Source: Internet
gauzy clouds of dandelion down Source: Internet