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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
well, i don't know how common "limpid" is in english (i mean, i know it, so it can't be completely obscure, right ?) but i *did* mention the french word :
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It gets used more in (bad?) romantic poetry and fiction than in general everyday use - gazing into limpid eyes, eyes like limpid pools(*), all that sort of thing.
(*) When I was very young I didn't know the difference between limpet and limpid, and wondered why eyes were being compared to rock pools full of rock hugging molluscs.