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

These brushes are nearly always of carbon, which is sometimes electroplated with copper to increase its electrical conductivity, though cylinders of copper wire gauze impregnated with graphite are utilized at times.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred

Cover the silver with some of the dilute nitric acid, put the dish over the Bunsen burner on a wire gauze, and bring the acid to a gentle boil.

From Common Science by Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)

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

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