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Meanings of gossamer in English

Catalan
fils de teranyina
Spanish
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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                  Usage of gossamer in English
                  1
                  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
                  4
                  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...
                  6
                  Lexi ran her fingertips in wonder over the gossamer beaded silk dress.
                  Mistress of the game
                  7
                  Clouds were stretched thin as gossamer, and stars were appearing behind them.
                  The art of mending: a novel
                  8
                  She pulls aside the mosquito netting and slips under its tenting gossamer.
                  The windup girl
                  9
                  He felt as if a huge gossamer net was closing round him.
                  It Is Never Too Late to Mend
                  10
                  Then the ribbons of shifting gossamer fog about his middle yanked tight.
                  Assail
                  11
                  In what various vessels of gossamer it can float across wide spaces?
                  The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
                  12
                  His hands sculpted her shape beneath the gossamer fabric of his shirt.
                  Seduced by a highlander
                  13
                  Look at scorpionflies, insects with long, clear gossamer wings splotched with black.
                  Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
                  14
                  Those are the gossamer of time; this the adamant of eternity.
                  The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
                  15
                  And for him each airy gossamer floats in the gold of the sunlight.
                  Zanoni
                  16
                  He takes no pleasure in the mere spinning of gossamer webs for display.
                  The Pursuit of God
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