translucent skin
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skin that is very pale or thin, so that you can see veins through it
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Examples (20)
- The elderly woman had delicate, translucent skin that revealed the blue veins beneath.
- Her delicate features and translucent skin gave her an ethereal appearance.
- Her translucent skin made her look almost ethereal in the moonlight.
- The newborn's translucent skin was so thin you could almost see the tiny veins beneath.
- Patients with this condition often have very thin, translucent skin on their hands.
- After a long illness, his complexion had become pale, almost translucent skin.
- He noticed the translucent skin of the newborn baby, so fragile and soft.
- Certain deep-sea fish possess translucent skin as a form of camouflage in the dark depths.
- The artist struggled to capture the glow of her translucent skin in the portrait.
- The vampire in the novel was depicted with chillingly pale and translucent skin.
- As she aged, her skin became increasingly translucent, showing every detail of the structure underneath.
- She protected her sensitive, translucent skin from the sun with wide-brimmed hats.
- Vampires are often depicted in literature as having unnaturally translucent skin.
- As people age, their skin can become thinner and more translucent, revealing veins more clearly.
- The medicine caused his skin to become translucent and sensitive to sunlight.
- The artist used delicate washes of color to portray the model's translucent skin.
- In the harsh hospital light, his translucent skin looked pale and sickly.
- His hands, with their prominent bones, had an almost translucent skin quality.
- Light seemed to pass right through his translucent skin, giving him a ghostly appearance.
- The medical condition caused her normally healthy complexion to develop translucent skin patches.