The Only Use
diaphanous
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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- It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.†
p. 52.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(diaphanous) so thin that light passes through it
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)