tiffany

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Whoppers that are as tiffany as Anne Valérie Hash's Spring/Summer collection of 2009.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2012

The dictionary says "tiffany" means a thin muslin gauze.

From Time Magazine Archive

They wisely began by obtaining subscriptions to enable them to carry out their designs, and finally succeeded in making a globe formed of tiffany, covered with elastic varnish, which was twenty-eight feet in diameter.

From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

"Excellent, excellent," replied Lambourne; "why, thy limber bit of a thigh, thrust through that bunch of slashed buckram and tiffany, shows like a housewife's distaff when the flax is half spun off!"

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

Another of Mme. de Pelevé's not very judicious presents was "a shepherdess hat of pale blue silver tiffany."

From The Fairchild Family by Rudland, Florence M.