Gossamer

/ˈɡɒ.sə.mə/ · noun

Meaning

A fine film made up of cobwebs, seen floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. A fine film made up of cobwebs, seen floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
2. A soft, sheer fabric.
3. (figurative) Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
4. Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

Example Sentences

A lover may bestride the gossamer / That idles in the wanton summer air, / And yet not fall; so light is vanity.

The filmy Gossamer now flitts no more,

I had been dead-heavy before, and now I felt a kind of dreadful lightness, which would not suffer me to walk. I drifted like a gossamer; the ground seemed to me a cloud, the hills a feather-weight, the air to have a current, like a running burn, which carried me to and fro.

The dew and gossamer had dried early from the grass

Madame wiped the picture with her gossamer handkerchief and impulsively pressed a tender kiss upon the painted canvas.

She takes a large, gossamer scarf from the trunk and drapes it about her shoulders.

a circle of popes or maybe bishops in white gossamer robes

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

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• gossamers
• more gossamer
• most gossamer

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