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Gossamer Common

Gossamer has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture

2

filaments from a web that was spun by a spider

3

A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.

Adjective
1

characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy

"this smallest and most ethereal of birds"

"gossamer shading through his playing"

2

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"

3

Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

Example Sentences
"this smallest and most ethereal of birds" adjective
"gossamer shading through his playing" adjective
"a hat with a diaphanous veil" adjective
"filmy wings of a moth" adjective
"gauzy clouds of dandelion down" adjective
"gossamer cobwebs" adjective
"sheer silk stockings" adjective
"transparent chiffon" adjective
"vaporous silks" adjective
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
gauze fibril
Rhyming Words
mer imer amer omer emer kmer famer fumer rimer tamer gamer timer remer gomer elmer emmer ajmer aimer comer ebmer
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