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GAUZE
gauze, netting, veiling
(noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
gauze, gauze bandage
(noun) (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)
A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
(medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
Wire gauze, used as fence.
Mist or haze
Verb
gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)
To apply a dressing of gauze
(literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.
Source: Wiktionary
Gauze, n. Etym: [F. gaze; so called because it was first introduced from Gaza, a city of Palestine.]
Definition: A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.
Gauze, a.
Definition: Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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