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Gauzy
adj
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Adjective
- 1 Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.
"But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life."
- 2 light; giving the effect of haze figuratively
- 3 vague or elusive figuratively
"Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?"
- 4 tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic figuratively
"2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003"
Adjective
- 1 so thin as to transmit light wordnet
Etymology
From gauze + -y.
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