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

After many experiments he devised a "safe lamp," which was a common miner's lamp enclosed in a wire gauze.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

They must be kept in large pots or jars, covered over with wire gauze or perforated zinc, and supplied with fresh stems or logs of wood, or with moist sawdust fresh from their favourite tree.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

The former used small tubes, the latter fine wire gauze, to intercept the flame.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.