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The phrase "a gauze" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun phrase used to refer to a thin, sheer fabric often used for medical purposes, such as covering wounds or as a surgical dressing. Example: "The doctor applied a gauze to the patient's wound to prevent infection."
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Denial is a gauze; willful denial, an opiate.
By comparison with CD reproduction, it is as if a gauze had been removed.
Diffusion tubes are tiny glass tubes with a gauze mesh at the top end.
Mata Hari's life was such a gauze of lies it is amazing that she actually took anything off.
They shared a taste for Oriental barbarism filtered through a gauze of ancien-regime snobbery…Mentions their similar skeletal frames.
Performing behind a gauze screen to create the illusion of cinema, the silent actors put together a daily comic drama.
To say that I was "wrapped" in "a gauze of self-pity and euphemism" is insensitive and mean-spirited.
Once all the Shades are down their two ramps and have finished that two-dimensional entrance, a gauze lifts.
When the orchestra first strikes up, and several times afterward, documentary footage of tanks and ships appear on a gauze masking the Olivier stage.
And I am writing this under a strangely coloured sky, a gauze of purple-brown hanging overhead, and the faint but distinct smell of oil in the air.
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"We're going to have to make a gauze-cotton loincloth that is sort of falling off".
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