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

"Excellent, excellent," replied Lambourne; "why, thy limber bit of a thigh, thrust through that bunch of slashed buckram and tiffany, shows like a housewife's distaff when the flax is half spun off!"

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

She went on to sing as she went, "Green as grass is my kirtle," "Tire me in tiffany," "Come ye bearded men-at-arms," and "The Bending Rush."

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Though of wide mesh, the fishing-nets will keep off five or six degrees of frost, and in certain cases are better than a closer protection, like tiffany, which sometimes “coddles” the trees too much.

From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Biddle, Violet Purton