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gauze, n.|gɔːz|
Forms: 6 Sc. gais (? 7 Sc. gadza), 7–9 gawse, 8 gause, gawz, 7– gauze.
[a. F. gaze, of uncertain origin, app. first recorded in the 16th c. Hence also Sp. gasa, Du. gaas.
In 1279 (Concilium Budense lxi, quoted by Du Cange) gazzatum is mentioned among the stuffs which monks are forbidden to wear. This is usually identified with F. gaze, and Du Cange conjectures that it may have been named from Gaza in Palestine, but there is no evidence for either supposition.]
1. a. A very thin, transparent fabric of silk, linen, or cotton.
1561Inv. R. Wardr. (1815) 159 Mair, ane litle pece of gais of silvir and quhite silk. 1612Sc. Bk. Rates in Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 308 Gadza of all sortis without gold or siluer the eln, xvis. Gadza stript, with gold and siluer. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 349/1 Housewifes Cloth made of Hemp or Flax..Holland, Tiffany, Gawse. 1720Swift Song Wks. 1755 IV. i. 29 Brocados and damasks, and tabbies, and gawses, Are by Robert Ballentine lately brought over, With forty things more. 1754Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 235 A Vandyke in frize your neck must surround. Turn your lawns into gauze, let your Brussels be blond. 1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 286 The weight of silk contained in a yard of gauze is very trifling. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 99 Breast and back Of this vivacious beauty gleamed through gauze.
fig.1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 325 All the toys that infatuate men..are the selfsame thing, with a new gauze or two of illusion overlaid. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. Introd. 17 The good cloth of Herodotus or Thucydides or Xenophon is patched with the transparent gauze of Diodorus and Plutarch.
b. A similar fabric made of fine wire; usually with defining word, as wire-gauze.
1842Parnell Chem. Anal. (1845) 14 A wire gauze is fastened over the top. 1867W. W. Smyth Coal & Coalmining 197 A cap of perforated copper within the wire gauze. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. v. 132 The tube contained a roll of platinum gauze.
2. transf. A thin transparent haze.
1842Tennyson Vision of Sin ii, Purple gauzes, golden hazes..Flung the torrent rainbow round. 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. i. 18 Like one of those light vivid things That glide down the gauzes of summer. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. xi. (1894) 272 To the east a blue gauze seemed to cover valley by valley. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta II. xlviii. 273 A blue gauze of smoke floated over the chimney.
3. Comb.
a. simple attrib., as gauze blind, gauze curtain, gauze dress, gauze handkerchief, gauze merino, gauze ribbon, gauze silk, gauze suit, gauze veil, gauze wing, gauze wire-cloth.
b. objective, as gauze-dresser, gauze-dyer, gauze-manufacturer, gauze-weaving; gauze-like adj.c. Special comb.: gauze-lamp, a safety-lamp in which the flame is surrounded by wire-gauze; gauze-loom (see quot.); gauze ring = crape ring (crape n. 3 b); gauze-tree (West Indian), the lace-bark tree, Lagetta lintearia.
1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xvi, It was a shop-front, fitted up with a *gauze blind and an inner door.
1859― T. Two Cities ii. ix, He let his thin *gauze curtains fall around him.
1863M. E. Braddon J. Marchmont II. i. 2 How pretty and fairy-like she looked in her white *gauze dress.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Gauze-dresser, a stiffener of gauze.
Ibid., *Gauze-dyer, one who colours gauze fabrics.
1762Sterne Tr. Shandy v. i, Throwing a thin *gauze handkerchief over her head. 1780Mary Frampton Jrnl. (1885) 3 Gauze handkerchiefs trimmed with blonde were worn on the neck.
1877Daily News 25 Oct. 3/7 He worked with a *gauze lamp, and on a lad coming down beside him with a naked lamp he left.
1798C. Smith Young Philos. IV. 181 She wrapt the silk and *gauze-like what d'ye call it, that the women folks wear, over her pretty face. 1897M. Kingsley West Africa 570 The white, gauze-like mist comes down from the upper mountain towards us.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Gauze-loom, a loom in which gauze is woven.
Ibid., *Gauze-manufacturer, a weaver of gauze.
1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. 124 *Gauze merino [cloth].
1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. i. 5 Instead of flaunting in silks and *gauze ribbons. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Gauze-ribbon, a thin kind of ribbon worn by ladies, made of gauze.
1867G. F. Chambers Descriptive Astron. vii. viii. 709 As a rule the *gauze ring must not be expected to be seen with any aperture below 4 inches. 1964D. H. Menzel Field Guide Stars ix. 297 Toward the inner edge the grains again thin out, producing a partially transparent ring, the gauze, or crepe, ring.
1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 89 Glorious calves swelling within his *gauze-silk stockings.
1759Compl. Lett.-writer (ed. 6) 230 A fine French *Gauze Suit.
1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. Isl. 784 List of Colonial names..*Gawse tree: Lagetta lintearia.
1860Tyndall Glac. i. xii. 87 The current was sufficiently strong to blow away the corner of my *gauze veil.
1838Penny Cycl. XI. 97/1 The essential character of *gauze-weaving is that between each cast of the shuttle a crossing of the warp threads shall ensue.
1802Paley Nat. Theol. xix. 354 We see a white, smooth, soft worm, turned into a black, hard, crustaceous beetle with *gauze wings.
1839Ure Dict. Arts, etc., *Gauze wire cloth; is a textile fabric, either plain or tweelled, made of brass, iron, or copper wire, of very various degrees of fineness and openness of texture. Its chief uses are for sieves, and safety lamps.
Hence gauze v. trans., to cover with a thin veil of mist; to cover with or as with gauze; to veil; also intr., to become gauzy or misty.
1876Gd. Words 687 Every lone house and tree distincter stood Than in the sunny glare that gauzed the noon. 1902B. Baynton Bush Studies 45 The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. vii. 292 Thickets of hazel gauzed over the distances inside. |