What is "gossamery"

Usage examples of "gossamery".

Vision and speech and breathing was possible through the gossamery fabric, but its thinness concealed the mans features except for general contour.

He was playing in delicate variations, tranquil and enchanting, of effects in gold and silver, now gossamery thin, now thick and rich.

Virgin so as not to tear her gossamery maidenhead, the frangibility of which was likened by Thomas the Rhymer unto that of crisp silk, and whose rupture would have detheologized the Western World, catastrophically orphaning us all.

She had long flowing hair, gold in hue, and she was clothed in some sort of gossamery stuff which clung close, moulding lithesome curves as she ran.

It was smoke that stuck together in gossamery tufts and long yarns like surgical cotton being unrolled out of a bat.

The man squinted, saw the tiny cluster of gossamery glass, noted the liquid about it that seemed to be vanishing magically, and took a step forward.

I thought, the white waistcoat with gold braid and the white ruffled blouse, making her appear gossamery, if not virginal.

With his moist bright red mouth and fluffy white whiskers he had begun to look, if not respectable, at least harmless, and his shrunken body had assumed such a gossamery aspect that the matrons of his dingy neighbourhood, as they watched him shuffle along in the fluorescent halo of his dotage, felt almost like crooning over him and would buy him cherries and hot raisin cakes and the loud socks he affected.