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Etymology

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Borrowed from French diaphanie.

Noun

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diaphanie (countable and uncountable, plural diaphanies)

  1. The art of imitating stained glass with translucent paper.
  2. An artistic design made in this way.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for diaphanie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)