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

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Example Sentences

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wire gauze

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

One is obliged, in the meantime, to hold a fine wire gauze, in the form of a little scoop, before the face, if one would escape bruises.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams

The flame from the lamp may be surrounded by a fine wire gauze, B, which will prevent it being extinguished when experimenting in the external air.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Henry Negretti

It is sufficient to look at wire gauze backed by the sky or by a flame, through a piece of blackened cardboard, pierced by a needle and held close to the eye.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

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