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Word entry · 5 letters

gauzy

Best crossword clue

"Thin and translucent"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted aguyzStarts with GEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1G2A3U4Z5Y

Definitions

  1. so thin as to transmit light

Word origin

From gauze + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch.
  • Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?
  • 2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003

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