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UK
/ɡˈɒsəmɐ/
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[ US /ˈɡɑsəmɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɑsəmɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
gossamer shading through his playing
this smallest and most ethereal of birds -
so thin as to transmit light
sheer silk stockings
filmy wings of a moth
gossamer cobwebs
vaporous silks
gauzy clouds of dandelion down
a hat with a diaphanous veil
transparent chiffon
NOUN
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
How To Use gossamer In A Sentence
- And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes, -- rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
- Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence.
- So I made a classic cross-hair from spider's gossamer and used it to pinpoint a cell in the area I wanted to watch.
- But was that gossamer-like illusion, lying upon the far horizon, the magic of nicotian, or the vague presence of distant heights? Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
- Shakespeare, in _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, represents him as “a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged, dainty-limbed fairies, strong enough to knock all their heads together, a rough, knurly-limbed, fawn-faced, shock-pated, mischievous little urchin.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
- She and danced her first solo with gossamer lightness and fluidity.
- Her hair had drifted through his fingers like gossamer.
- But he fell into a sleep light as gossamer, and a dream that seemed equally light.
- Other tracks smuggle in gossamer strands of bebop and cool jazz. Times, Sunday Times
- The thing was a kind of pilotless biplane of gossamer polymer, its wings silkscreened to resemble a giant butterfly. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth