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  • adverb In a gauzy manner.

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Examples

  • Once inside, you're met with an anteroom flush with velvet armchairs, followed by a procession of gauzily curtained booths fit for booze-sucking vampires; each booth's equipped with a chain buzzer, so the waitress only pops in when you need another drink, or need to tell someone how awesome the buzzers are.

    Thrillist: Raines Law Room Thrillist 2011

  • My children, who make it possible for me to bitch tirelessly about motherhood while still feeling, deeply, to the very tips of my toes and possibly even further, that this motherhood thing is the most beautiful – the most hazily, gauzily, barefoot-in-a-field-of-daisies romantic – thing in the world.

    10 Things I Hate About Motherhood (And One That I Love) - Her Bad Mother 2010

  • But tonight's razzle-dazzle painted the portrait of an idealized Chinese past, of a gauzily perfectwhat-should-have-been instead of the rather more tawdry what-really-was.

    Quest for Gold 2008

  • James and the Giant Peach, TAKEN from the 1961 children's book by Roald Dahl, begins on a gauzily idyllic note as the young James (Paul Terry), surrounded by his loving parents, gazes at the clouds on a sunny English seacoast.

    Aboard A Magic Peach 2008

  • Only then could Blair begin to construct his "new Britain," his gauzily defined version of Ronald Reagan's shining city on a hill, where Blair's "compassion with a hard edge" (welfare-to-work) meets his crusade to re-educate Britain into a high-tech superstate (PCs in every school).

    Getting The Hang Of Power 2008

  • The gauzily finned fish had inhabited new quarters for approximately three weeks before his demise, a three-gallon aquarium he shared with Sushi and Sashimi, two small Sunset Fire platys.

    Make your own license plate shunn 2001

  • The gauzily finned fish had inhabited new quarters for approximately three weeks before his demise, a three-gallon aquarium he shared with Sushi and Sashimi, two small Sunset Fire platys.

    Make your own license plate shunn 2001

  • Margaret gripped the side of the boat, standing waistdeep in the surf, her dress floating gauzily around her.

    Pirates Linda Miller 1995

  • Her hat, gauzily basking with a pair of long white gloves on one of his arm-chairs, proclaimed that she had come to stay.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • Her hat, gauzily basking with a pair of long white gloves on one of his arm-chairs, proclaimed that she had come to stay.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

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