gauzy

Definition

Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.

Etymology

From gauze + -y.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds."
• "Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch."