英和和英

形容詞

glimpsable (comparative more glimpsable, superlative most glimpsable)

1. Capable of being glimpsed.
   • 2009, Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal, Picador (2015), page 48:

     And Lilia could almost see this other life at times, like a scene playing out on the other side of a gauze curtain, dim but glimpsable: the first quiet years of elementary school and forgetting, kissing boys in cars parked at lookout spots, a front porch with flowers planted in the backs of plastic swans, her father recast eventually as the slightly eccentric but kindly grandfather smoking his pipe on the front steps and lending his lawn mower to the neighbours, and the early upheaval so distant that she’s no longer sure it wasn’t a dream.