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gossamer
A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
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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.
A soft, sheer fabric.
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She takes a large, gossamer scarf from the trunk and drapes it about her shoulders.
Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
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A gossamer blanket of coaldust floated down like a dirty blessing and gently smothered the traffic.
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