All 3 Uses of
translucent
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Leaves of unraveling newspaper blow into the rank water that runs in an open ditch; the newspaper wheels along the street, scattering its sheets onto the water, where they float as translucent squares of lace.†
Chpt 4translucent = almost transparent -- allowing light to pass through without providing a clear image
- Easier to find were the dikonko, edible locusts and crickets, whose plump abdomens were shrunk translucent like balloons half-filled with water.†
Chpt 4 *
- That's the principal trick of Congolese cooking: rubbing two leaves together to give color and taste to another day's translucent, nutritionally blank ball of manioc.†
Chpt 5