gauze
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He does not have stitches and is not covered in gauze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“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
Chapman had applied gauze to Williams' mouth, not a scalpel.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 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
“Today I can see through the gauze a bit. I...like your scarf,” she said quietly.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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
Many of the fabrics that we know of today came to Europe via the Muslims, and their names still show their origins: damask from Damascus, muslin from Mosul, gauzes from Gaza.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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