tiffany

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Whoppers that are as tiffany as Anne Valérie Hash's Spring/Summer collection of 2009.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2012

The dictionary says "tiffany" means a thin muslin gauze.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet some said Twelfth Day cut her out and out, for she came in a tiffany suit, all white and gold, like a queen on a frost-cake—all royal, glittering, and Epiphanous.

From Charles Lamb by Jerrold, Walter

Shade with tiffany, or close-meshed netting, in bright sunny weather; removing it early in the afternoon.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by Keane, William

Miss Cambridge worked me, upon this occasion, a suit, in silks upon tiffany, most excessively delicate and pretty, and much admired by her majesty.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny