Gossamer
Definitions
Equivalents
Examples
“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”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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