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wire gauze

American  

noun

  1. a gauzelike fabric woven of very fine wires.


wire gauze British  

noun

  1. a stiff meshed fabric woven of fine wires

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of wire gauze

First recorded in 1810–20

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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

CD is a base-plate with a hole EF in it; this hole is covered with fine wire gauze, through which ultra-violet light passes and falls on the plate AB.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 8 "Conduction, Electric" by Various

Then hold a piece of close-meshed wire gauze right on the flame.

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

I have a small sieve made of wire gauze sufficiently coarse to allow a common pin to be put through any of the holes.

From Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them by C. V. (Charles Vernon) Boys

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