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Another word for gauzy

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Adjective

  1. So light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film

    See also:

    thick

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Another word for gauzy

Modifier
  1. See also:

    sheer

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Sentence Examples

  • Aristotle's vague knowledge of the worm may have been derived from information acquired by the Greeks with Alexander the Great; but long before this time raw silk must have begun to be imported at Cos, where it was woven into a gauzy tissue, the famous Coa vestis, which revealed rather than clothed the form.

  • Simple to wear and accessorize, rounding out your summer wardrobe with a selection of cotton gauzy dresses is one smart fashion move.

  • gauzy curtains of dust that partially hide the light of the stars behind them.

  • gauzy tendrils of he even lets.

  • gauzy silk dress straight out of a Maxfield Parrish painting.

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