gauzy

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gauze /gɔːz/

▶noun

• 1 a thin transparent fabric.

  ■ Medicine thin, loosely woven cloth used for dressing and swabs.

• 2 (also wire gauze) a very fine wire mesh.

– derivatives
gauzily adverb,
gauziness noun,
gauzy adjective (gauzier, gauziest).

– origin C16: from Fr. gaze, perh. from Gaza, the name of a town in Palestine.