tissue
/ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/ noun B1- Thin, woven, gauzelike fabric.
- A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
- A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
- Absorbent paper as material.
- A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to perform a specific job.
- Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series. · a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
- The scratch sheet or racing form.
- A cigarette paper.
Plural tissues
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It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine.
But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.
I made you one of the new bookmarkers out of red tissue paper.
We are going to decorate the hall with creeping spruce and fir mottoes with pink tissue-paper roses in them.
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