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

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

They make fancy moulds of plaster of Paris and of wire gauze, and roll out clay as the pastrycook does dough, and manipulate it as so much pie-crust, instead of applying to it simple skill.

From Project Gutenberg

The disk 32 operates the wire gauze screens for equalizing the brightness of the two stars under observation.

From Project Gutenberg

Third, a cap c, which fits closely on to the box, and has a top of fine wire gauze.

From Project Gutenberg