wire gauze

Historical Examples

• But in my bell-glasses or wire-gauze cages I see nothing of the kind.

  Social Life in the Insect World

  J. H. Fabre

• They were kept in a wire-gauze cage, and it was our delight as children to feed these monsters every morning.

  Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists

  Various

• Under cover of the wire-gauze curtain which veiled the window he had carefully inspected the scene before emerging.

  Fire-Tongue

  Sax Rohmer

• The soil around the aperture is cleared and flattened to receive the wire-gauze, under which I place a Pompilus.

  More Hunting Wasps

  J. Henri Fabre

• Stunned by colliding with the walls of their glass or wire-gauze prison, they all perish within twenty-four hours.

  More Hunting Wasps

  J. Henri Fabre