translucency

And the sailing ships, as if cut out of frailest pearl translucency, were wafting away towards Naples.

These waving strata are distinguishable from one another by their different densities, and by their degrees of translucency.

All china, then, has in a greater or less degree this quality of translucency.

This hard porcelain has always the two qualities of hardness and translucency.

Oriental china (and all true porcelain) has the quality of hardness, and, when held up to the light, of translucency.