What is "gauzes"

Usage examples of "gauzes".

On the Idaho Preserve, where would she need the gauzes of social life: the platformed heels, the decorative face patches, the baubles and bangles, even the security belt?

She slid her hand under a fine gold chain she wore about her neck, lifted a black metal triangle from under the gauzes of her dress.

Then my Southron silks and gauzes, traded for Northern leather and fur.

The room she inhabited had been much improved by rugs and silks and gauzes, draped and piled here and there.