Gauzeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• gause (obsolete)

語源

Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).

発音

• enPR: gôz, IPA: /ɡɔːz/
• (Canada) IPA: /ɡɑz/
• 韻: -ɔːz
• Homophone: gores (non-rhotic)

名詞

gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)

1. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
2. (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     “I can’t wrap up any dog’s foot now. There’s some gauze in the bathroom, go get it and do it yourself.”

3. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
4. Ellipsis of wire gauze
5. Mist or haze

派生語

動詞

gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)

1. (transitive) To apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.
   • 2004, Peter Gordon, Starting with Bees‎, page 52:

     The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly.

   • 2007, Brandon Pena, Twilight’s Angel‎, page 161:

     I gauzed the deep cuts and gashes.

2. (ambitransitive, literary) To mist; to make or become gauze-like.
   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28:

     The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.

   • 1955, Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, page 40:

     It had come to be six o’clock; midges gauzed the air.

   • 1985, Jan Morris, From the Four Corners, published 1995:

     Then a film of chemical vapour seems to drift around the city, fudging every edge, gauzing every vista.

   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous:

     I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.

参考

• wire netting