noun
- A gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture.
- Filaments from a web that was spun by a spider.
- synonyms: cobweb
adjective
- Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy.
- usage: "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"
- synonyms: ethereal
- So thin as to transmit light.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
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