Definitions for gossamer

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gossamer gos·sa·mer

Spelling: [gos-uh-mer]

IPA: /ˈgɒs ə mər/

Gossamer is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 352 anagrams from letters in gossamer (aegmorss).

Definitions for gossamer

noun

1. a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
2. a thread or a web of this substance.
3. an extremely delicate variety of gauze, used especially for veils.
4. any thin, light fabric.
5. something extremely light, flimsy, or delicate.
6. a thin, waterproof outer garment, especially for women.

adjective

1. Also, gossamery [gos-uh-muh-ree] /ˈgɒs ə mə ri/ (Show IPA), gossamered. of or like gossamer; thin and light.

Origin of gossamer

1275-1325; Middle English gosesomer (see goose, summer¹); possibly first used as name for late, mild autumn, a time when goose

Examples for gossamer

The gossamer floatings of this French danseuse possessed 258 everyone.

How like is the down of the fruit to the first gossamer down of the heart—and ah!

You know how they capture the creatures on which they live; by weaving webs of gossamer, is it not?

Why, it is more idle than the passing wind, lighter than the down of the gossamer.

But only stoop—catch the light thwartwise—and all is a silver network of gossamer!

I have no idea what place these gossamer threads occupy in the economy of nature.

It is like the pursuit of the gossamer, which the least breath sweeps away.

For weeks it hung trembling on a thread slender and weak as the gossamer's web.

Why, that he had not been tied down by ropes at all, but only by thousands of gossamer webs!

"Your hints are always as delicate as gossamer," said Temple.