Very thin; gauzy.
1799. Ye advocates of a treaty, what think you of this sheer trick?—The Aurora, Phila., Feb. 21.
1825. Her bosom was covered with “shire muslin”; exactly the most becoming veil in this world.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ ii. 164.
1856. “Wonderful thin though.” “Sheer, ye mean, that ’s what they call sheer, a very desirable quality in linning cambrick.”—Whitcher, ‘The Widow Bedott Papers,’ No. 11.
1902. The night of the festivity arrived, and stately Aunt Swan, in her Quaker garb of mode satin and sheerest muslin, stepped into her carriage and was driven to her friend’s house.—Bishop Whipple, ‘Lights and Shadows,’ p. 7.
