gossamery
Example Sentences
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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
On, gay adventurers, bravely ride the billowy furze, Golden foil and dewy pearls are swaying to a tune: Quaff the brew of red raspberry through the vine veils gossamery.
From Ballads of Peace in War by Earls, Michael
Written on the First Leaf of a Lady's Album Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing, First leaf of spring!
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary
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 costume,—rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail