Meaning of Gossamer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fine film made up of cobwebs, seen floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
   countable, uncountable
2. A soft, sheer fabric.
   countable, uncountable
3. Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

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”

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