Antonyms for gauze

Grammar : Noun

Spell : gawz

Phonetic Transcription : gɔz

Definition of gauze

Origin : 1560s, gais, from French gaze, conjectured to be from Arabic gazz "raw silk" [Barnhart], or from Gaza, Palestinian city associated with production of this fabric [Klein, Du Cagne].

As in bandage : noun covering for wound
As in mystification : noun daze
As in perplexity : noun daze
As in puzzlement : noun daze
As in vertiginousness : noun dizziness
As in daze : noun confusion
As in film : noun coating, tissue; mist

Example sentences :

Wrap in a strip of gauze or cheesecloth and place in a steamer.
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Let her go as Ariel, all gauze, flesh-tints, and natural curves.
Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes

She hailed the happy thought and invested in countless yards of gauze.
Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes

With that idea, I took off the gauze which covered my features.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

There was further, in the wonderful box, an old remnant of gauze.
Extract from : « Sue, A Little Heroine » by L. T. Meade

His head had emerged slowly, month by month, from swathings of gauze.
Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber

When gauze is combined with plain weaving it is styled “leno.”
Extract from : « Textiles » by William H. Dooley

It must have hurt like fun, said the nurse, busily engaged with the gauze dressing.
Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke

A curtain of gauze seemed to be hung before the lighted tenements.
Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson

Her voice was in the gauze of a whisper that hardly left her throat.
Extract from : « Americans All » by Various

Synonyms for gauze

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