gauze

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.

   “I can’t wrap up any dog’s foot now. There’s some gauze in the bathroom, go get it and do it yourself.”.

2. 2
   verb

   To apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.

   The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly.

3. 3
   verb

   To mist; to make or become gauze-like.

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

4. 4
   noun

   a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave

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

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