gauze
IPA: gˈɔz
noun
- A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
- (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
- A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
- Wire gauze, used as fence.
- Mist or haze
verb
- To apply a dressing of gauze
- (literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.
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Examples of "gauze" in Sentences
- Then maybe wrap these big scrapes in gauze and tape.
- Around the broom, imitating tinsel, is wrapped the gauze from a bandage.
- Well, they packed stuff in it, just like what I call gauze tape, you know, that we sew.
- As there was nothing under the thin gauze, the result of course was more display than is usual in Europe.
- Quikclot is now available in gauze pad form and is much easier and cleaner to use than the older, granular product.
- A thin gauze was procured from their webs, and this Cean manufacture, the invention of a woman, for female use, was long admired both in the East and at
- We found many of the natives dressed in a thin French gauze, which they called byqui; this being a light airy dress, and well calculated to display the shape of their persons, is much esteemed by the ladies.
- We found many of the natives dressed in a thin French gauze, which they call _Byqui_; this being a light airy dress, and well calculated to display the shape of their persons, is much esteemed by the ladies.
- Among the exceptions is an elegant dark wooden chest of drawers from Hitler's chancellery, filigreed with hundreds of swastika forms, which has been hung at a diagonal angle on a corner wall, and is further protected from possible Hitler admirers by a thin gauze panel.
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