PREFERRED TERM
Gauze (fabric)
DEFINITION
- n. From the French "gaze" and the Scottish "gais" "gadza", later in English "gawse" "gause" "gauze". That denomination is derived from the city of Gaza in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. It refers to a thin, transparent fabric of silk, linen or cotton. The areas of corssed warps result in a small and visible openings in the cloth.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989; [www.oed.com]; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015. Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles. A guide to technical terms. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011
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IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Gaze (tissu)
French
Garza (tessuto)
Italian
Gasa (tejido)
Spanish
URI
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