Gauze Meaning
/ɡɔːz/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
nounA similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
Sentence Examples
Wrap the gauze around the dressing.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The nurse carefully placed a piece of ____ over the wound.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The nurse carefully applied a piece of sterile ____ to the wound to keep it clean while it healed.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"“I can’t wrap up any dog’s foot now. There’s some gauze in the bathroom, go get it and do it yourself.”"
— 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
"The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly."
— 2004, Peter Gordon, Starting with Bees, page 52:
"I gauzed the deep cuts and gashes."
— 2007, Brandon Pena, Twilight’s Angel, page 161:
"The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely."
— 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28:
"It had come to be six o’clock; midges gauzed the air."
— 1955, Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, page 40:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The nurse carefully placed a piece of ____ over the wound.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The nurse carefully applied a piece of sterile ____ to the wound to keep it clean while it healed.