Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gauze"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gauze \Gauze\, n. [F. gaze; so called because it was first
introduced from Gaza, a city of Palestine.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gauze \Gauze\, a.
Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino
underclothing.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gauze
n 1: (medical) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for
bandages and dressings [syn: {gauze bandage}]
2: a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave [syn: {netting},
{veiling}]
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