MEANING
Thin, delicate, or partly transparent like a light film.
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- filmy curtain
- filmy veil
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A filmy curtain lifted in the draft from the stairwell.
She watched him through a filmy veil of condensation.
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- filmy
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more filmy; superlative most filmy where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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