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Meanings of black gauze in English

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Usage of black gauze in English
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Now and again, the black gauze head-dress nodded, dropped forward, recovered itself.
No Thoroughfare
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The old ladies wore the same, but made of black gauze.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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A flash of black gauze and delicate flesh showed within.
The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
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She, or he, inclined a head all wrapped in obscuring layers of jet- black gauze.
Dancer’s Lament
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Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.
Main Street
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The average citizen dressed in long flowing white robes, with a high, broad-brimmed, black gauze hat.
Korea's Fight for Freedom
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She said a good deal of the black gauze dress and the lovely effect of the silver butterflies.
Emily Fox-Seton / Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The M...
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The wine spilled over Arobin's legs and some of it trickled down upon Mrs. Highcamp's black gauze gown.
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
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Her eyes glinted behind a curtain of black gauze, but that was about all I could make out.
The Lightning Thief
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The only one who did justice to it was the countess-dowager-ina black gauze dress and white crêpe turban.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
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The black gauze veil that blots out the scene drops, and when it is raised-ifever-thescene is changed.
The Return Of The Soul / 1896
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The black gauze head-dress nodded, dropped forward, recovered itself, nodded again, dropped forward again, and recovered itself no more.
No Thoroughfare
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Only in the mirror her eyes were covered by a blindfold of black gauze and her throat was slashed.
Heart-shaped box
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At the right of the platform a leaded-window effect is made with a slender wood frame covered with black gauze.
Christmas Entertainments
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They contained the gloves and the scarves, which were lightly gathered together in the middle with knots of black gauze ribbon.
We and the World: A Book for Boys. Part I
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Christine sprang to the floor, shuffled off the black gauze in almost a single movement, and seized some of her clothes.
The Pretty Lady
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