gauze-like

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gauze-like - so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, see-through, vaporous, vapourous, gossamer, transparent, sheer

thin - of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"

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Spunlaced nonwovens provide "textile-like hand" and have physical attributes that produce a "gauze-like" fabric.