an European designation of a class of screen printing fabrics comprising both silk and synthetic fibers
A thin, sheer plain-weave fabric made from cotton, wool, silk, rayon, or other manufactured fibers End-uses include curtains, apparel, trimmings, and surgical dressings
A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze
A piece of laboratory apparatus consisting of a flat piece of wire gauze placed on a tripod to give a beaker or flask additional support or to distribute heat more evenly
so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"