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  • adjective so thin as to transmit light

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Examples

  • It seems an emblem of purity, dignity, repose, a white vision in a gauze-like haze of blue.

    Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 4 Richard Bangs 2011

  • It seems an emblem of purity, dignity, repose, a white vision in a gauze-like haze of blue.

    Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 4 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Crape was a thin transparent gauze-like plain woven fabric, without any twill, consisting of highly twisted raw silk, mechanically embossed with a minutely wrinkled surface.

    Mrs. Hume 2009

  • Others folded white gauze-like paper, dipped partly in red dye, into triangles.

    Japanese Town Reunites Around Festival Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011

  • Crape was a thin transparent gauze-like plain woven fabric, without any twill, consisting of highly twisted raw silk, mechanically embossed with a minutely wrinkled surface.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Or maybe it was the lone shrimp trawler, aimlessly circling off the coast, dragging a saturated gauze-like boom behind it, accomplishing nearly nothing.

    David Yarnold: Somewhere Over the Gulf Coast: A "Glee" and BP Oil Disaster Mashup 2010

  • Per Aage Sivertsen, winner of this spring's Oslo Fashion Week designer award (Naløyet) in February and creative mind behind the Norwegian "eco-lux" brand FIN, plans to make part of next year's spring/summer collection from a gauze-like fabric based 100% on milk proteins.

    Is This Style's Sustainable Frontier? Valeria Criscione 2009

  • For extreme bondage, there was gauze-like wrapping for mummification along with an instruction guide that was propped up with the front cover facing outward.

    Pure Paradise Allison Hobbs 2009

  • The priest was wearing a green chasuble that was made of gauze-like material--it reminded me of the outer black garment that Chinese officials would wear--that same sort of diaphanous material, whatever it was.

    Archive 2008-08-24 papabear 2008

  • The white, gauze-like mist comes down from the upper mountain towards us: creeping, twining round, and streaming through the moss-covered tree columns — long bands of it reaching along sinuous, but evenly, for fifty and sixty feet or more, and then ending in a puff like the smoke of a gun.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

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