Noun: gauze
| Singular | gauze |
| Plural | gauzes |
Sample Sentences
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“I can’t wrap up any dog’s foot now. There’s some gauze in the bathroom, go get it and do it yourself.” [1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like gauze
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”). See: French Nouns '
gaze'.