In this belief Lucy reposed her hope, and went on weaving her enchanted web of fairy tissue, as beautiful and transient as the film of the gossamer when it is pearled with the morning dew and glimmering to the sun.
Source: tatoeba (7752231)
Gossamer
//ˈɡɒ.sə.mə//
Synonyms for "gossamer" (162 found)
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Adjective(5 words)
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6 entriesis a
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11 entriessimilar
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70 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- воал noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
- есенна паяжина noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 游絲 /游丝 noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- 薄紗 /薄纱 noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
- 蛛絲 /蛛丝 noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Czech
2 entries- babí léto noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- flór noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
Dutch
3 entries- delicaat noun (anything delicate, light, flimsy)
- herfstdraad noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- ragfijn weefsel noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
Finnish
4 entries- harsomainen adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
- seitinohut adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
- harso noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- harso noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
French
2 entries- fil de la vierge noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- fils de la Vierge noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
German
4 entries- Altweiberfäden noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- Flugfäden noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- Frauenfäden noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- Herbstfäden noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Hungarian
2 entries- fátyolszövet noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
- ökörnyál noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Ido
1 entries- filandra adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
Irish
1 entries- téada an phúca noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Italian
2 entries- delicato adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
- sottile adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
Japanese
4 entries- 流れ糸 noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- 流れ糸のように繊細なかぼそいもの noun (anything delicate, light, flimsy)
- 流れ糸のように繊細なはかないもの noun (anything delicate, light, flimsy)
- 薄い紗 noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
Korean
1 entries- 거미줄 noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Manx
1 entries- sneeuane noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Māori
1 entries- angiangi adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
Polish
4 entries- cienki adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
- babie lato noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- delikatny przedmiot noun (anything delicate, light, flimsy)
- lekka tkanina noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
Romanian
1 entries- funigel noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Russian
4 entries- то́нкий adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
- газ noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
- паути́на noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- паути́нка noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- croisean Moire noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
- gaoir-theas noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- bablje ljeto noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Swedish
2 entries- flor noun (a soft, sheer fabric)
- spindelväv noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Uzbek
1 entries- mezon noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Welsh
4 entries- gwawnaidd adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
- main adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
- ysgafn adj (tenuous, light, filmy or delicate)
- blew Medi noun (cobwebs floating in the air)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Except for a few gossamer clouds, the sky was clear and blue.
Source: tatoeba (10365921)
The Gossamer Years, an English title for the Japanese classical work of literature Kagerō Nikki.
Source: tatoeba (11307498)
A lover may bestride the gossamer / That idles in the wanton summer air, / And yet not fall; so light is vanity.
Source: wiktionary
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