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Gauze

//ɡɔːz// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave wordnet
  3. 3
    A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings wordnet
  5. 5
    A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Ellipsis of wire gauze abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
  2. 7
    Mist or haze countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To apply a dressing of gauze
  2. 2
    To mist; to become gauze-like. literary

    "The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).

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