filmy

Etymology

From film + -y. Doublet of filmic.

adj

  1. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy
  2. 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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt 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.
  3. film-like; similar to a motion picture

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