However, beautiful effects can be obtained under opaque or semiopaque glazes. From Wordnik.com. [10. Decoration] Reference
It is made of more than a thousand semiopaque windows set into an elegant steel grid. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of Christ Abounds in Oakland's New Cathedral] Reference
Most Chinese buildings are aggressively alien: concrete structures with brilliant blue, semiopaque windows. From Wordnik.com. [Shards Of A Nation] Reference
Shifters are very hard to read, their brains are all snarly and semiopaque, but I would've picked up on that. From Wordnik.com. [All Together Dead]
It is possible to make glazes with every degree of transparency or opacity, such as semitransparent or semiopaque. From Wordnik.com. [5. Simple glaze theory] Reference
Lit from within and turned semiopaque, it might be a twin to the object he now found himself gazing at in wonderment. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
Some have only tiny banks of windows near the top, the glass semiopaque, giving a hint of motion and light but not actually letting you see wht's going on. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
Merriam-Webster defines “scumble” as partly “to make as color or a painting less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque or semiopaque color.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
For several hours, on the far side of a semiopaque security curtain that had been erected in the main spacedock hangar, a team of stevedores had been off-loading from the Enterprise mangled piles of metal, and shipping containers packed tight with small debris. From Wordnik.com. [Harbinger] Reference
Each drawing, a veritable webbing of wispy white lines that merge, plait, and even throb across their surfaces of coal-black paper, offers a new and semiopaque supernatural vision of worlds -- of creatures, of material, of flora -- that only our imaginations can rightly access. From Wordnik.com. [ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest] Reference
One taken laterally, low down on the neck but clear of the shoulder, will often show a bone or other semiopaque object invisible in the anteroposterior exposure. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
It was an autumn day with an opaline atmosphere, a veiled, semiopaque, lustrous day, with fiery points and flashes of red sunlight on the roofs and windows opposite, while the trees of the square, with all their leaves gone, were like the tracings of India ink on a sheet of tissue-paper. From Wordnik.com. [A Personal Record] Reference
Few lights were showing, apart from that in the window of the grocer’s shop, which was dimmed by the semiopaque advertising stickers plastered all over it. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret In Exile]
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