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Definition of Gauziness
1. n. The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.
Definition of Gauziness
1. Noun. The quality of being gauzy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gauziness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gauziness
Literary usage of Gauziness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"In drawing any stuffs, bindings of books or other finely textured substances, do
not trouble yourself, as yet, much about the woolliness or gauziness of the ..."
2. The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin (1876)
"... or other finely textured substances, do not trouble yourself, as yet, much
about the woolliness or gauziness of the thing ; but get it right in shade ..."
3. Complete Works by Robert Browning, Charlotte Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke (1898)
"Let gauziness shade, not shroud, — adjust, Dim and not deaden, — somehow sheathe
10 Aught sharp in the rough world's busy thrust, If it reach me through ..."
4. The Masters of Ukioye: A Complete Historical Description of Japanese by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, William H. Ketcham (1896)
"Here is the perfect type of the year's head, showing the gauziness of the expanded
hair, through which its back members may be seen. ..."
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