gauze

• gause (obsolete)

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

• enPR: gôz, IPA^(key): /ɡɔːz/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ɡɑz/
• Rhymes: -ɔːz
• Homophone: gores (non-rhotic)

gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)

1. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
2. (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
3. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
4. Wire gauze, used as fence.
5. Mist or haze

gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)

1. To apply a dressing of gauze
2. (literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.
   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28:

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

• wire netting

Cf. German gauzen.

gauze

1. to bark

   Synonym: blaffe