gauze

CEFRC1

/ɡɔːz/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
Thin cloth used for medical coverings or light clothing.
02
noun
Extra detail
A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.

Examples

“I can’t wrap up any dog’s foot now. There’s some gauze in the bathroom, go get it and do it yourself.”
Wrap the gauze around the dressing.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

In context

The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly.
I gauzed the deep cuts and gashes.
The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.

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“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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Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).