gossamer

Noun
  1. A gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture (synset 103453640)
    is a type of: gauze, netting, veiling - a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
  2. Filaments from a web that was spun by a spider (synset 103063809)
    is a type of: fibril, filament, strand - a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
    same as: cobweb
Adjective
  1. Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy (synset 300709899)
    "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"
    similar to: delicate - exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
    same as: ethereal
  2. So thin as to transmit light (synset 302422186)
    "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
    similar to: thin - of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
    same as: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous

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