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Meanings of gossamer in anglès

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fils de teranyina
espanyol
tela de araña

Filaments from a web that was spun by a spider.

fils de teranyina

So thin as to transmit light.

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Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy.

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Examples for "ethereal"
Examples for "ethereal"
1
The light at this time of year has a particularly ethereal quality.
The Irish Times
2
That captures the slightly ethereal experience we want to create, she said.
The Guardian
3
In Antistrophe I. Coleridge originally said of the ethereal multitude in Heaven-
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 / The Letters of C...
4
The whiteness of marble creates an ethereal, cloud-like quality: hence the title.
The Guardian
5
All diseases are merely reductions of this ethereal spirit in the organism.
Psychotherapy
Usage of gossamer in anglès
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Never were such films and gossamer threads used in like entanglement before.
A Face Illumined
2
Gulbis loves to attack, but on this occasion found himself chasing gossamer.
The Guardian
3
The main figure leads its troop on gossamer thread of varied journey.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
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Except it wasn't a string; it was a gossamer-thin strand of steel.
The waste lands
5
Seeds of Tillandsia fly on long threads, like spiders on the gossamer
The Botanic Garden. Part II. / Containing the Loves of the Plant...
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Lexi ran her fingertips in wonder over the gossamer beaded silk dress.
Mistress of the game
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Clouds were stretched thin as gossamer, and stars were appearing behind them.
The art of mending: a novel
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She pulls aside the mosquito netting and slips under its tenting gossamer.
The windup girl
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He felt as if a huge gossamer net was closing round him.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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Then the ribbons of shifting gossamer fog about his middle yanked tight.
Assail
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In what various vessels of gossamer it can float across wide spaces?
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
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His hands sculpted her shape beneath the gossamer fabric of his shirt.
Seduced by a highlander
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Look at scorpionflies, insects with long, clear gossamer wings splotched with black.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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Those are the gossamer of time; this the adamant of eternity.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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And for him each airy gossamer floats in the gold of the sunlight.
Zanoni
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He takes no pleasure in the mere spinning of gossamer webs for display.
The Pursuit of God
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