Definition of "gauze-winged" [gauze-winged]

• Having gauzy wings: applied to sundry insects, as May-flies.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Never more may you bask and blink in the glare, or doze in the knife-edged shadows, or pounce upon gauze-winged flies."
• "The ancestral shade was a birth-place, an abiding-place, a cemetery, and the soil grew ever richer, and the thick-trunked tree displayed its ruddy flowers and gave of its best in nectar for birds and butterflies and gauze-winged, ever-flitting creatures."
• "From this perspective, it looked like a honey-comb, fuzzy wigged heads and gauze-winged dresses bobbing to and fro across the six-sided tiles, buzzing busily over glasses filled with the nectar of brandywine and porter."