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

A screen of wire gauze surrounding a delicate electrical instrument will protect it from external electrostatic induction.

From Hawkins Electrical Guide, Number One Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A Progressive Course of Study for Engineers, Electricians, Students and Those Desiring to acquire a Working Knowledge of Electricity and its Applications by Hawkins, Nehemiah

The sugar, still in a liquid condition, is poured into a deep circular pan, which contains a movable drum-shaped cylinder of wire gauze.

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter

The battery of both rotary and square stamps is surrounded by wire gauze, or a perforated iron plate, allowing the finely pulverized quartz to escape, and retaining the coarser particles.

From Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by Hittell, John S. (John Shertzer)