gauze : Idioms & Phrases

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gauze bandage

  • noun (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
    gauze.
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Gauze dresser

  • one employed in stiffening gauze.
Webster 1913

gauze-like

  • adjective satellite so thin as to transmit light
    sheer; vaporous; see-through; gossamer; cobwebby; vapourous; filmy; diaphanous; transparent; gauzy.
    • a hat with a diaphanous veil
    • filmy wings of a moth
    • gauzy clouds of dandelion down
    • gossamer cobwebs
    • sheer silk stockings
    • transparent chiffon
    • vaporous silks
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petrolatum gauze

  • noun gauze saturated with petrolatum
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Wire gauze

  • a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling gauze.
Webster 1913