gossamery
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But I must not anticipate—a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken, gossamery cloud, soft as a baby's cheek.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costume,—rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
Adj. structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical. textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun. rough, gritty; smooth. smooth as silk, smooth as satin.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes,—rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various
But I must not anticipate—a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken gossamery cloud, soft as a baby's check.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
