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gauzy

adjective as in see-through, gossamer in texture

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It’s one small window of sharp, colorful detail in an otherwise gauzy gray world.

At the center of this splash, everything is crisp and clear — a small window of sharp, colorful detail in a gauzy grayscape.

Your body is part of your mind—not in some gauzy, metaphorical way, but in a very real brain-wiring way.

How wild to walk around outside this gauzy reconstruction of a small living space after pacing in our own few rooms for more than a year.

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You wake up each morning to gauzy horizons serrated with dormant volcanoes, most of which you can attempt to summit at dawn, dampened by the clouds.

Achtung Baby's ironic astringency was a successful reaction to Rattle and Hum's gauzy sincerity.

In other words, it may be that the only thing more seductive than the lure of the comfy life is the gauzy embrace of nostalgia.

But I also learned more recently not to put a gauzy, Instagram filter on the life of Nelson Mandela.

And then there are those gauzy bastions of testosterone: actors and models.

Did I mention that Shelley speaks through an electronic device and wears large gauzy mittens?

On the eastern fluttered gauzy veils, feathery fans, blazing brocade of Mosul, and kerchiefs of Kufa.

Next came Elsie, looking exceedingly like a valentine in her gauzy dress, her fair hair waving over her shoulders.

So with Epimetheus's consent she opened the lid once more, and out fluttered a tiny little creature with beautiful gauzy wings.

But Cupid gently freed himself from her clinging arms, and spreading his gauzy wings flew out into the night.

On the 29th a cold south-easter blew off the ice-cliffs and the sun was trying to pierce a gauzy alto-stratus.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gauzy, such as: translucent, delicate, diaphanous, filmy, flimsy, and insubstantial.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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