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
Tiffany, tif′a-ni, n. a silk-like gauze.—adj. made of tiffany, transparent.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
She looked hideous in her brown Venice waistcoat; frightful in her orange tiffany farthingale;—absolutely unbearable in her black velvet hood, wire ruff, and taffety gown.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
In 1652, three men and a woman were fined ten shillings each and costs for wearing silver-lace, another for broad bone-lace, another for tiffany, and another for a silk hood.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
