GAUZE

n. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.

2.
a.

Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.


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