pellucid

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pellucid

selvä, kirkas, selkeä, kristallinkirkas, peilikirkas, päivänselvä, läpikuultava, läpinäkyvä.

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Englannin sanakirja

pellucid englanniksi

1. Allowing the passage of light; transparent.

2. 1857, w:R. M. Ballantyne|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.

3. 1862, w:Christina Rossetti|Christina Rossetti, "w:Goblin Market|Goblin Market" in Goblin Market, The Princes Progress, and Other Poems, The Worlds Classics, Oxford University Press, 1913, 173-179, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16950/pg16950-images.html

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: (..)

4. 1979, w:Time (magazine)|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.

5. Easily understood; clear.

6. 1994, Fritz Lanham in w:Houston Chronicle|Houston Chronicle, 13 November, 1994, http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/,

Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir.

7. 1999, w:Judith Butler|Judith Butler, w:Gender Trouble|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.

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