gauze
any thin and often transparent fabric made from any fiber in a plain or open weave.
a surgical dressing of loosely woven cotton.
any material made of an open, meshlike weave, as of wire.
a thin haze.
Origin of gauze
1Other words from gauze
- gauze·like, adjective
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How to use gauze in a sentence
Treated by an officer carrying the quick-clot gauze, the man survived a wound to the abdomen.
Thousands of bullets have been fired in this D.C. neighborhood. Fear is part of everyday life. | Peter Hermann, John D. Harden | July 23, 2021 | Washington PostFattening the fabric between two hot steel sheets left it looking like the gauze people have long used as a wound dressing, or bandage.
Bandages made from crab shells speed healing | Silke Schmidt | April 14, 2021 | Science News For StudentsFor their new gauze, the researchers ground up the shells of crabs, shrimp and lobsters.
Bandages made from crab shells speed healing | Silke Schmidt | April 14, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThe group described its new chitin-based gauze in the January 2021 issue of ACS Applied Bio Materials.
Bandages made from crab shells speed healing | Silke Schmidt | April 14, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThese researchers wondered if making a gauze out of it would speed wound healing better than the traditional cellulose-based gauze does.
Bandages made from crab shells speed healing | Silke Schmidt | April 14, 2021 | Science News For Students
The more we try to look through the gauze, the more it all begins to look like gauze.
It will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten.
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.
Here Comes the Bride…In Flaming Red: Two Centuries of Colorful Wedding Dresses | Liza Foreman | May 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUsing tape and gauze, he then tried to plug the holes in that leg.
Thinking fondly of some gauze-filtered yesteryear where manufacturing jobs abounded and kids played outside more is one thing.
Eat Like a Caveman? The Trouble With Paleo Living | Robert Herritt | March 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMadame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThe wine spilled over Arobin's legs and some of it trickled down upon Mrs. Highcamp's black gauze gown.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThe only one who did justice to it was the countess-dowager—in a black gauze dress and white crêpe turban.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodTitania herself appears in the transparent robe of silver gauze.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierIn the dance in Scene VI she used a long black gauze scarf and a white one.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | Various
British Dictionary definitions for gauze
/ (ɡɔːz) /
a transparent cloth of loose plain or leno weave
(as modifier): a gauze veil
a surgical dressing of muslin or similar material
any thin openwork material, such as wire
a fine mist or haze
Origin of gauze
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