wire gauze

American  

noun

1. a gauzelike fabric woven of very fine wires.

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wire gauze British  

noun

1. a stiff meshed fabric woven of fine wires

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Etymology

Origin of wire gauze

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

Here, “Little Tike” a sculpture reworked from 1973 to 1999, is built around a pink toy plastic vehicle augmented with foam, wire, gauze, and other materials and parked vertically on the wall.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2020

And it was sculpture he returned to at the end of his life, making work fashioned from wire, gauze, sand and plaster one weekend in the New Jersey backyard of the sculptor Tony Smith’s house.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2012

The former used small tubes, the latter fine wire gauze, to intercept the flame.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.

Respirators are made of wire gauze with cotton wool or a sponge; the substance is poured on and inhaled by the patient.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

You'll find that the flame will spread under the wire gauze but will not go through.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis