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  • adjective Like or resembling gauze.

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Examples

  • I was gowned and gloved, wearing a gauzelike blue cap on my head.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • I was gowned and gloved, wearing a gauzelike blue cap on my head.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • Several customers turned to look at hera boy with spiky blue dreads was sitting next to a beautiful Indian girl with long black hair and gauzelike golden wings sprouting from her back.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • Several customers turned to look at hera boy with spiky blue dreads was sitting next to a beautiful Indian girl with long black hair and gauzelike golden wings sprouting from her back.

    The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007

  • So over the years, imperceptibly -- imperceptibly -- the dye on the linen threads faded and s-- a gauzelike effect developed that you wouldn't know from looking at it.

    The Flag, The Poet and The Song 2001

  • The large windows had light blue velvet drapes and gauzelike white curtains.

    Eye of the Storm V.C. Andrews 2001

  • The large windows had light blue velvet drapes and gauzelike white curtains.

    Eye of the Storm V.C. Andrews 2001

  • It resembled the corpse of a man shrouded tightly in a thin, gauzelike fabric, a featureless body imprisoned in its wrappings.

    Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

  • Beryal had covered the bread dough with a gauzelike cloth and was slicing pale green roots into a skillet.

    The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • We use one that combines “activated charcoal” with traditional purification through gauzelike filter membranes.

    The RVer’s Bible Kim Baker 1997

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