pellucid
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəˈluːsɪd/
pellucid
- Allowing the passage of light; transparent.
- 1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island, ch. 16:
- . . . and the bright seaweeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.
- 1862, Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, The World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1913, 173-179,
- You cannot think what figs / My teeth have met in, / What melons icy-cold / Piled on a dish of gold / Too huge for me to hold, / What peaches with a velvet nap; / Pellucid grapes without one seed: […]
- 1979, Time, 22 October, 1979, [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947535,00.html]
- Opera star Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano.
- 1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island, ch. 16:
- Easily understood; clear.
- 1994, Fritz Lanham in Houston Chronicle, 13 November, 1994, ,
- Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir.
- 1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Preface:
- If I treat that grammar as pellucid, then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here.
- 1994, Fritz Lanham in Houston Chronicle, 13 November, 1994, ,
- (allowing passage of light) clear, limpid, lucid, translucent
- (easily understood) clear, crystal clear, lucid, translucent
- Spanish: transparente, diáfano, cristalino
- Spanish: diáfano
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