gossamer
15 06 2009Nouns
1. (n.) gossamer;
- a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture;
2. (n.) cobweb, gossamer;
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider;
Adjectives
1. (adj.) ethereal, gossamer;
- characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy;
- “this smallest and most ethereal of birds”; “gossamer shading through his playing”;
2. (adj.) cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous;
- so thin as to transmit light;
- “a hat with a diaphanous veil”; “filmy wings of a moth”; “gauzy clouds of dandelion down”; “gossamer cobwebs”; “sheer silk stockings”; “transparent chiffon”; “vaporous silks”;