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gauze

[gawz] / gɔz /
NOUN
bandage
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“Midnight Movement” encases Monk’s best-known melody, “’Round Midnight” within a chiming, repeated figure and a gauze of natural overtones and synth tones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

He described it as a bioethanol fireplace that does not need a chimney flue, where liquid is poured on to a cotton gauze to create a "candle effect".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

The singer arrives with her face covered in gauze, a bedazzled ankle monitor and clear lucite heels before breaking into a full dance sequence in front of the judge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

Luckily, as with any trending consumer good these days, see-through clothing comes in every price point and quality tier, from $36 polyester-blend cargo joggers to $419 gauze pants in 100 percent silk.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2024

Back at Frankie’s place, I sat on his bed while he laid out salve and gauze on the nightstand.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The shapes, like kimono jackets and sleeveless tunics and cropped palazzo pants in soft cottons or gauzes and Irish linens, are uncomplicated and designed to flatter.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2022

“Anyone from the street medic community needs medical supplies, they can stop by here and get Band-Aids, gauzes, medical patches,” they said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2020

If Gardiner's brisk clarity, favouring symbolist hues over impressionist gauzes, sometimes stripped the score of an element of its mystery, the delicacy of the ORR's playing, in the final act especially, was something to savour.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2012

Talea ended the evening with “Bateau Ivre,” in which a Rimbaud-inspired John Zorn swathes his customary fractiousness in luminous gauzes pinched from Pierre Boulez’s linen closet.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2012

The silks and muslins and gauzes still gleamed unworn and beautiful, and doubtless they were still fashionable.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare


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