1. gauze - Noun
2. gauze - Adjective
3. gauze - Verb
A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.
Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThey used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead
Small Mabel whimpered all night long, For calling herself the cause. Her oak-eyed mother did no thing But change the bloody gauze. Gwendolyn Brooks
A match as a pen Blood on the floor as ink The forgotten gauze cover as paper But what should I write? I might just manage my address. This ink is strange; it clots. I write you from a prison in Greece. Alexandros Panagoulis
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern. Oscar Wilde
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. Pat Conroy
A small amount of evidence did not find benefit from packing the abscess with gauze. Source: Internet