Dictionary Entry

gauze

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ɡɔːz/Used In Literature ↓

A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.

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Common Phrases

. gauzepad gauzepads gauzedressing gauzegauze wiregauze sterilegauze iodoform

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Poetry examples for “gauze”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

She sang and danced on gracefully and calm,
The light gauze hanging loose about her form;
To me she seemed a proudly-swaying palm

And noticed her, and ask'd who was
That lady in the golden gauze?
And then to go to bed, and lie

The jewelled steps are already quite white with dew,
It is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings,
And I let down the crystal curtain

When like fleet hunters ye have left mine eye,
In your thin gauze of woolly-fleecing drest;
Or in your threaten’d thunder’s grave black vest,

And to her sombre cavern flies,
Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

Crush the fly-king
In his gauze, because no honey-bee? 40

smart
With a pink gauze gown all spangles, and seven swords stuck in her
heart!

First we found a linen closet in the hospital corridor where Buddy
took out a white mask for me to wear and some gauze.

Stroked by the light,
Seemed but a ghost-like gauze, and no substantial
Meadow or mound.

Would rather fight than eat their meals.
They like to chase a gauze-winged fly
And catch and beat him till he squeals.