Filmy

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Composed of film or films. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. - Dryden.

Adj.

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filmy - 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" Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, gauzy, see-through, vaporous, transparent, gossamer, sheer

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