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

The few shops which dealt in European fashions were crowded from morning to night with fair visitants, or their femmes de chambre; and laces and bugles, catgut and tiffany, were in constant demand.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

The same year she bought hers in London, Governor Berkeley paid half a pound for a tiffany whisk in Virginia.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

Shade with tiffany, or close-meshed netting, in bright sunny weather; removing it early in the afternoon.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by Keane, William