wire gauze

noun

a gauzelike fabric woven of very fine wires.

Words nearby wire gauze

wire cloth, wire cutter, wire entanglement, wire fraud, wire gauge, wire gauze, wire glass, wire grass, wire house, wire netting, wire recorder

Origin of wire gauze

First recorded in 1810–20

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Examples from the Web for wire gauze

I have a score of females, all at the height of their splendour, in a wire-gauze cage in the open air.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles|Jean Henri Fabre
Finally, each apparatus is placed under a wire-gauze, bell-shaped cage, which stands in a dish filled with sand.
The Life of the Spider|J. Henri Fabre
My six couples under the wire-gauze cover furnished me with fifty-seven inhabited pellets.
Social Life in the Insect World|J. H. Fabre
The roasting coffee may be viewed through a mica or wire-gauze panel inserted in the wall of the outer cylinder.
All About Coffee|William H. Ukers

It has been suggested that not a bad idea of it may be obtained by looking at a Full Moon through a wire-gauze window-screen.
The Story of Eclipses|George Chambers

British Dictionary definitions for wire gauze

wire gauze

noun

a stiff meshed fabric woven of fine wires

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