Gossamery

The Italian poet, [Giambattista] Marino, had been reputed the greatest master of gossamery affectation in Europe.

She fluttered about him with her hair down in a thick brown braid across each shoulder, and in a gossamery, filmy, lacy “thing”—she had flung her gay-colored cloak upon a chair—that he was very much afraid was not quite a proper thing to wear before a young gentleman whom she had just met.