Synonyms for gauze
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gawz |
| Phonetic Transcription : gɔz |
Top 10 synonyms for gauze Other synonyms for the word gauze
- bewilderedness
- brume
- covering
- discombobulation
- distraction
- dusting
- fabric
- fog
- foil
- fold
- giddiness
- glaze
- haze
- haziness
- integument
- lala-land
- layer
- leaf
- lightheadedness
- maze
- membrane
- mistiness
- muddle
- muddledness
- mystification
- nadaville
- narcosis
- nebula
- obscuration
- opacity
- partition
- pellicle
- perplexity
- puzzlement
- scum
- sheet
- shock
- skin
- stupefaction
- stupor
- trance
- transparency
- veil
- vertigo
- web
- wooziness
Définition of gauze
Origin :- 1560s, gais, from French gaze, conjectured to be from Arabic gazz "raw silk" [Barnhart], or from Gaza, Palestinian city associated with production of this fabric [Klein, Du Cagne].
- As in bandage : noun covering for wound
- As in mystification : noun daze
- As in perplexity : noun daze
- As in puzzlement : noun daze
- As in vertiginousness : noun dizziness
- As in daze : noun confusion
- As in film : noun coating, tissue; mist
- Wrap in a strip of gauze or cheesecloth and place in a steamer.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Let her go as Ariel, all gauze, flesh-tints, and natural curves.
- Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
- She hailed the happy thought and invested in countless yards of gauze.
- Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
- With that idea, I took off the gauze which covered my features.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- There was further, in the wonderful box, an old remnant of gauze.
- Extract from : « Sue, A Little Heroine » by L. T. Meade
- His head had emerged slowly, month by month, from swathings of gauze.
- Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber
- When gauze is combined with plain weaving it is styled “leno.”
- Extract from : « Textiles » by William H. Dooley
- It must have hurt like fun, said the nurse, busily engaged with the gauze dressing.
- Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke
- A curtain of gauze seemed to be hung before the lighted tenements.
- Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
- Her voice was in the gauze of a whisper that hardly left her throat.
- Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
Antonyms for gauze
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