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Resembling a fine, very thin fabric, such as gauze.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Noun : cleansing tissue; toilet tissue. ,a tissue of falsehoods. ,a blouse of a delicate tissue
  • Verb (used with object) : Tissue all cosmetics off the face before going to bed
  • His face was full of tissuey peaks and ridges and the vacant blue eyes seemed to be floating somewhere on an Arctic sea, totally detached from the rest of him.
  • They were of a fine tissuey fibre, and contained much writing in a very small compass.
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