diaphane

(dī′ă-fān) [Gr. dia, through, + phainein, to appear]

A very small electric light used in transillumination.

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Sua conhecida biografia criou sonhos, fantasias, costumes, licoes de sucesso e expectativas sociais, sugerindo que a existencia plena e bem-sucedida poderia ser tambem alcancada pelas mulheres comuns que usassem a tiara de cabelo a la Sarah Bernhardt, vestissem coletes e luvas que a atriz usava, e se embelezassem com o po-de-arroz La Diaphane.

Fame and pretension: Sarah Bernhardt's tours in Rio de Janeiro (1886-1905)/Fama e afetacao: as passagens de Sarah Bernhardt pelo Rio de Janeiro (1886-1905)

This navy blue Diaphane Chrono is super-stylish at pounds 111.

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La les arts vont cueillir cette merveille utile, Tombe odorante ou vit l'insecte volatile; Dans cet or diaphane il est lui-meme encor, On dirait qu'il respire et va prendre l'essor.

Andre Chenier parmi les statues

(27) Poetique de Francis Ponge: le palais diaphane (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1990), p.

Francis Ponge and Andre Du Bouchet on Giacometti: art criticism as testimony

Standing on the edge of Pere-Lachaise, Jules, like Rastignac, observes the city from afar: "Puis Jules apercut a ses pieds dans la longue vallee de la Seine, entre les coteaux de Vaugirard, de Meudon, entre ceux de Belleville et de Montmartre, le veritable Paris, enveloppe d'un voile bleuatre, produit par ses fumees, et que la lumiere du soleil rendait alors diaphane" (188-189).

Letters, lies, and legible urban space in Balzac's Ferragus

Radiant Colour in Bleu Diaphane: In a ritzy-glitzy gold case, this looks like the blue your mum wore in the Seventies.

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(27) "Marius and the Diaphane," Novel (Fall 1975), pp.

Walter Pater's essay "Diaphaneite" as a bridge between romanticism and modernism

(38) Les vers attirent l'attention du lecteur par l'intermediaire du portrait de sa diaphane bien-aimee.

La femme et ses representations dans les poemes preromantiques roumains

Bernhardt's image was also used to market more prosaic products from cosmetics to boeuf bouillion, as evidenced in Cheret's poster for Le Diaphane, Poudre de riz Sarah Bernhardt (1890), and anonymous trading cards advertising Extrait de viande, featuring Bernhardt as L'Aiglon (1900), reminding us that branding has a long history.