gauze

[ gawz ]

noun

1. any thin and often transparent fabric made from any fiber in a plain or open weave.
2. a surgical dressing of loosely woven cotton.
3. any material made of an open, meshlike weave, as of wire.
4. a thin haze.

gauze

/ ɡɔːz /

noun

1. 1. a transparent cloth of loose plain or leno weave
   2. ( as modifier )

      a gauze veil

2. a surgical dressing of muslin or similar material
3. any thin openwork material, such as wire
4. a fine mist or haze

Other Words From

• gauze·like adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gauze¹

First recorded in 1555–65; from French gaze; ultimate origin unknown

Word History and Origins

Origin of gauze¹

C16: from French gaze, perhaps from Gaza , where it was believed to originate

Example Sentences

Treated by an officer carrying the quick-clot gauze, the man survived a wound to the abdomen.

From Washington Post

Fattening the fabric between two hot steel sheets left it looking like the gauze people have long used as a wound dressing, or bandage.

From Science News For Students

For their new gauze, the researchers ground up the shells of crabs, shrimp and lobsters.

From Science News For Students

The group described its new chitin-based gauze in the January 2021 issue of ACS Applied Bio Materials.

From Science News For Students

These researchers wondered if making a gauze out of it would speed wound healing better than the traditional cellulose-based gauze does.

From Science News For Students

The more we try to look through the gauze, the more it all begins to look like gauze.

From The Daily Beast

It will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten.

From The Daily Beast

Another bold piece of color is a simple red dress made of silk gauze worn by one Monica Maurice for her wedding to Arthur Jackson.

From The Daily Beast

Using tape and gauze, he then tried to plug the holes in that leg.

From The Daily Beast

Thinking fondly of some gauze-filtered yesteryear where manufacturing jobs abounded and kids played outside more is one thing.

From The Daily Beast

Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.

From Project Gutenberg

The wine spilled over Arobin's legs and some of it trickled down upon Mrs. Highcamp's black gauze gown.

From Project Gutenberg

The only one who did justice to it was the countess-dowager—in a black gauze dress and white crêpe turban.

From Project Gutenberg

Titania herself appears in the transparent robe of silver gauze.

From Project Gutenberg

In the dance in Scene VI she used a long black gauze scarf and a white one.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bewilderment
• perplexity