tiffany
Example Sentences
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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
The poor players, marvellous compounds of tin, feathers, and tiffany, fret but a brief hour; but the playwright, less considered alive, is sooner defunct.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
He ascended from Paris on the 18th June 1786 in a balloon of glazed tiffany, 29 feet in diameter, which was constructed by himself.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
