gossamer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A fine film made up of cobwebs, seen floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.

   “A lover may bestride the gossamer / That idles in the wanton summer air, / And yet not fall; so light is vanity.”

2. isim A soft, sheer fabric.

   “Madame wiped the picture with her gossamer handkerchief and impulsively pressed a tender kiss upon the painted canvas.”

3. isim Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
4. sıfat Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

   “There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”