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- noun Obsolete spelling of
gauze .
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Examples
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I also have some items that I just use for camp such as immodium, chapstick, sunscreen, more asprin, and all of my gause and tape because it won't go in a small kit. when I hunt I usually never get over 4 hours away from the truck or camp so you can wait to actually clean and dress that wound till you get back.
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I also have some items that I just use for camp such as immodium, chapstick, sunscreen, more asprin, and all of my gause and tape because it won't go in a small kit. when I hunt I usually never get over 4 hours away from the truck or camp so you can wait to actually clean and dress that wound till you get back.
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The documentary did not use any "liberal" gause over the lens -- it was stark.
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Suddenly, and for the first time since Mor - gause had veiled logic with threats and sorcery, he saw clearly how foolish his fears had been.
The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983
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The boys did not see Mor - gause; she was lodged somewhere apart, not as a prisoner, they were told, but allowed to communicate with no one, until the King returned.
The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983
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MERLIN'S MIRROR 145 gause immediately after Arthur had lain with the girl.
Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975
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Musketoes, are hatched during the summer, and swarm over the country in such numbers, that, during the day, it requires no small trouble for the inhabitants to defend themselves in every quarter against them; and, during the night, gause pavilions are necessarily used, to exclude them from their beds, without which it is impossible to enjoy undisturbed repose.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Lawns of all Sorts, strip'd and flower'd kenting Handkerchiefs; cotton and linnen ditto; silk and gause ditto; Cambricks,
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She was wrapped in a loose robe of white satten: her head covered with a veil of gause: the village maids, who laid her in the coffin, had adorned her with the freshest flowers; the stood at an awful distance, weeping her hard fate and their own: they have entreated to watch around her this night, and to bear her to-morrow to the grave.
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Their heads were dress'd wth much haire and Long Locks full of Diamonds – some perfect Peakes of bows of Diamonds as was the Countess of Pembrook, – their heads so dress'd as a space Left for their Coronets to be set, all ye rest is filled wth haire, Jewells and gold, and white small Ribon, or Gold thinn Lace, in form of a peake, and gold gause on their rowles, they have also Diamond necklaces and jewels on their habitts.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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