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Showcasing more than 60 pieces from the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation and the Museum of Lace and Fashion collections, 'Sheer: Yves Saint Laurent', out today, highlights the designer’s mastery over transparent fabrics.

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sheer¹

/ʃɪə/

adjective

1. 1.

   nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis).

   "she giggled with sheer delight"

   Similar:

   utter

   complete

   absolute

   total

   pure

   perfect

   downright

   out-and-out

   thorough

   thoroughgoing

   through and through

   consummate

   patent

   surpassing

   veritable

   unqualified

   unmitigated

   unalloyed

   unadulterated

   unmixed

   stark

   rank

   plain

   simple

   mere

   proper

   fair

   arrant

   right-down
2. 2.

   (especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so.

   "the sheer ice walls"

   Similar:

   precipitous

   very steep

   perpendicular

   vertical

   abrupt

   bluff

   sharp

   vertiginous

   acclivitous

   declivitous

   scarped

   Opposite:

   gradual

adverb

1. 1.

   perpendicularly.

   "the ridge fell sheer, in steep crags"
2. 2.

   ARCHAIC

   completely; right.

   "she went sheer forward when the door was open"

noun

1. a very fine or diaphanous fabric or article.

   "I put up the new curtains and sheers"

dump

n.

1. A place where refuse is dumped: a garbage dump; a nuclear waste dump.

hell-bent

adjective

adjective: hellbent

1. determined to achieve something at all costs.

   "she's hell-bent on leaving"

pandemonium 

Pronunciation: /ˌpandɪˈməʊnɪəm/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar:there was complete pandemonium—everyone just panicked

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Origin

Mid 17th century: modern Latin (denoting the place of all demons, in Milton's Paradise Lost), from pan- 'all' + Greek daimōn 'demon'.

Pandemonium 

For book 1 of his epic poem Paradise Lost, published in 1667, John Milton invented Pandemonium – from the Greek pan (all), and daimon (evil spirit), literally "a place for all the demons" – or, as Milton first expressed in the poem: "A solemn Councel forthwith to be held At Pandæmonium, the high Capital Of Satan and his Peers." Later in the work he calls it the "citie and proud seat of Lucifer". By the end of the century, Pandemonium had become a synonym not just for hell, but, because the devils created a lot of noise, uproar and tumult. In 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton applied it to a common location: "We found ourselves in that dreary pandaemonium … a Gin-shop." Today, the term is applied to any scene of disarray, confusion or even heightened activity as in the headline: iPad pandemonium.