Gauze: (French gaze – perhaps Gaza the Palestinian city or Persian: qazz – raw silk), is a thin, sheer, and loosely wovenfabric originally of fine silk known as gazaatum that were exported from Gaza to Europe despite religious prohibitions since 13th century.
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