Definition of "gauze-like" [gauze-like]

• So thin as to transmit light (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Crape was a thin transparent gauze-like plain woven fabric, without any twill, consisting of highly twisted raw silk, mechanically embossed with a minutely wrinkled surface."
• "Others folded white gauze-like paper, dipped partly in red dye, into triangles."
• "It seems an emblem of purity, dignity, repose, a white vision in a gauze-like haze of blue."