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cobweblike

adjective as in diaphanous

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The Scherzo, with its obtuse iteration of a Baroque bass line, lives on color contrast, and the Philharmonic players offered plenty, from cobweblike string tremolos to gleaming brass evoking the tolling of feast-day bells.

Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye.

Very deliberately he drew out the stocking, also a jewel in its way, of a texture so diaphanous as to be almost cobweblike.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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