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gauze

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Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

gauzen. [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.  [1913 Webster]
Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.
gauzea. 
     Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gauze, n.
1 a thin transparent fabric of silk, cotton, etc.
2 a fine mesh of wire etc.
3 a slight haze.

Etymology
F gaze f. Gaza in Palestine

THESAURUS

gauze

Ace bandage, Band-Aid, London fog, London special, adhesive tape, application, band, bandage, bandaging, binder, brace, cast, cataplasm, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, dressing, drisk, drizzling mist, elastic bandage, epithem, film, fog, four-tailed bandage, frost smoke, haze, lint, mist, pea soup, pea-soup fog, peasouper, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, poultice, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, sling, smog, splint, sponge, stupe, tampon, tape, tent, tourniquet, triangular bandage, vapor

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gauze

Shade

N shade, awning, parasol, sunshade, umbrella, chick, portiere, screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, chador, mantle, mask, cloud, mist, gathering, of clouds, umbrage, glade, shadow, beach umbrella, folding umbrella, shady, umbrageous, welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail.

Semitransparency

N semitransparency, translucency, semiopacity, opalescence, milkiness, pearliness, gauze, muslin, film, mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre, mist, opal, turbidity, Adj, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, V, opalesce, (ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT.


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