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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Composed of film or films.

Whose

filmy

cord should bind the struggling fly.

Dryden.

Adj.

Composed of thin membranes or pellicles.

Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.

filmy ‎(comparative filmier, superlative filmiest)

Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy
Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI,
  On the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station.

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