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gauze

Gauze is from French gaze, which is often said to be named after Gaza. There is no direct evidence, and a rival theory points to Arabic qazz 'raw silk' (itself from Persian); either way, French gaze spread through Europe, and German doctors took it to Japan as gāze.

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900 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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