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gauzy

/gaw-zee/US // ˈgɔ zi //UK // (ˈɡɔːzɪ) //

纱质的,纱质,纱丽,轻纱

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    gauz·i·er, gauz·i·est.

    • : like gauze; transparently thin and light.

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Examples

  • Your body is part of your mind—not in some gauzy, metaphorical way, but in a very real brain-wiring way.

  • How wild to walk around outside this gauzy reconstruction of a small living space after pacing in our own few rooms for more than a year.

  • You wake up each morning to gauzy horizons serrated with dormant volcanoes, most of which you can attempt to summit at dawn, dampened by the clouds.

  • Achtung Baby's ironic astringency was a successful reaction to Rattle and Hum's gauzy sincerity.

  • In other words, it may be that the only thing more seductive than the lure of the comfy life is the gauzy embrace of nostalgia.

  • But I also learned more recently not to put a gauzy, Instagram filter on the life of Nelson Mandela.

  • And then there are those gauzy bastions of testosterone: actors and models.

  • Did I mention that Shelley speaks through an electronic device and wears large gauzy mittens?

  • On the eastern fluttered gauzy veils, feathery fans, blazing brocade of Mosul, and kerchiefs of Kufa.

  • Next came Elsie, looking exceedingly like a valentine in her gauzy dress, her fair hair waving over her shoulders.

  • So with Epimetheus's consent she opened the lid once more, and out fluttered a tiny little creature with beautiful gauzy wings.

  • But Cupid gently freed himself from her clinging arms, and spreading his gauzy wings flew out into the night.

  • On the 29th a cold south-easter blew off the ice-cliffs and the sun was trying to pierce a gauzy alto-stratus.

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