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

The same year she bought hers in London, Governor Berkeley paid half a pound for a tiffany whisk in Virginia.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

Keep the flowers dry and free from frost by means of an overhead shelter, to which tiffany or canvas can be attached, which should, however, only be used so long as the cold weather lasts.

From Gardening for the Million by Pink, Alfred

They wisely began by obtaining subscriptions to enable them to carry out their designs, and finally succeeded in making a globe formed of tiffany, covered with elastic varnish, which was twenty-eight feet in diameter.

From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)