gauzy

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English gauze Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gauzy From gauze + -y.

1. Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.

   “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.”

2. light; giving the effect of haze
3. vague or elusive

   “Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?”

4. tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic

   “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”