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The shapes, like kimono jackets and sleeveless tunics and cropped palazzo pants in soft cottons or gauzes and Irish linens, are uncomplicated and designed to flatter.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2022

“Anyone from the street medic community needs medical supplies, they can stop by here and get Band-Aids, gauzes, medical patches,” they said.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2020

If Gardiner's brisk clarity, favouring symbolist hues over impressionist gauzes, sometimes stripped the score of an element of its mystery, the delicacy of the ORR's playing, in the final act especially, was something to savour.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2012

Talea ended the evening with “Bateau Ivre,” in which a Rimbaud-inspired John Zorn swathes his customary fractiousness in luminous gauzes pinched from Pierre Boulez’s linen closet.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2012

The silks and muslins and gauzes still gleamed unworn and beautiful, and doubtless they were still fashionable.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare