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1 gossamer
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1. noun(the fine threads made by a spider which float in the air or lie on bushes.) hilos de telaraña
2. adjective(like gossamer: a blouse of a gossamer material.) gasa finatr['gɒsəməSMALLr/SMALL]1 (spiders' webs) hilos nombre masculino plural de telaraña2 (cloth) gasa fina1 muy fino,-agossamer ['gɑsəmər, 'gɑzə-] adj: tenue, sutilgossamer wings: alas tenuesn.• fleco s.m.• gasa muy fina s.f.• hilo de telaraña s.m.• telaraña s.f.'gɑːsəmər, 'gɒsəmə(r)['ɡɒsǝmǝ(r)]N (=web) telaraña f ; (=fabric) gasa f* * *['gɑːsəmər, 'gɒsəmə(r)] -
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4 telaraña
telaraña sustantivo femenino spiderweb (AmE), spider's web (BrE); ( polvorienta) cobweb;◊ telaraña mundial (Inf) World Wide Web
telaraña sustantivo femenino spider's web: el desván está lleno de telarañas, the loft is full of cobwebs ' telaraña' also found in these entries: Spanish: tela English: cobweb - spider's web - spin - web - gossamer - World Wide Web -
5 tenue
tenue adjetivo ‹voz/sonido/sonrisa› faint; ‹neblina/llovizna› light; ‹ línea› faint, fine
tenue adjetivo
1 (tejido, humo, niebla) thin, light
2 (débil, apagado) faint
una tenue luz, a faint light
un tenue llanto, a faint weeping ' tenue' also found in these entries: Spanish: apagada - apagado - suave English: dappled - dim - faint - subdued - dimly - gossamer - mellow - wispy
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Gossamer — can be: * Common name for spider silk * A very light, sheer, gauze like fabric, see textile manufacturing terminology * Gossamer A novel by Lois Lowry * Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter, found in his collection Vacuum Diagrams, and… … Wikipedia
Gossamer — Gos sa*mer, n. [OE. gossomer, gossummer, gosesomer, perh. for goose summer, from its downy appearance, or perh. for God s summer, cf. G. mariengarr gossamer, properly Mary s yarn, in allusion to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the E. word alluded to a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Gossamer — est un monstre de cartoon créé par Chuck Jones en 1946 pour un film de Warner Bros Hair Raising Hare, mettant en scène le lapin Bugs Bunny. Sommaire 1 Description 2 Première apparition 3 Voir aussi … Wikipédia en Français
gossamer — [gäs′əmər ēgäs′ə mər] n. [ME gosesomer, lit., goose summer: with allusion to the warm period in fall ( St. Martin s summer) when geese are in season and gossamer is chiefly noticed] 1. a filmy cobweb floating in the air or spread on bushes or… … English World dictionary
gossamer — ► NOUN ▪ a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs spun by small spiders. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ very fine and insubstantial. ORIGIN apparently from GOOSE(Cf. ↑goose) + SUMMER(Cf. ↑summery), perhaps from the time of year around St Martin s day (11… … English terms dictionary
Gossamer — (engl., spr. góssĕmĕr), Altweibersommer (s. d.) … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
gossamer — (n.) c.1300, spider threads spun in fields of stubble in late fall, apparently from gos goose + sumer summer (Cf. Swed. sommertrad summer thread ). The reference might be to a fancied resemblance of the silk to goose down, or because geese are in … Etymology dictionary
gossamer — [adj] gauzy, thin airy, cobweb, delicate, diaphanous, fibrous, fine, flimsy, light, sheer, silky, tiffany, translucent, transparent; concept 606 Ant. coarse, thick … New thesaurus
gossamer — n. & adj. n. 1 a filmy substance of small spiders webs. 2 delicate filmy material. 3 a thread of gossamer. adj. light and flimsy as gossamer. Derivatives: gossamered adj. gossamery adj. Etymology: ME gos(e)somer(e), app. f. GOOSE + SUMMER(1)… … Useful english dictionary
gossamer — [14] It would be pleasant to think that gossamer, originally ‘fine cobwebs’, is a descendant of an earlier goose summer, but unfortunately there is not enough evidence to make this more than a conjecture. The theory goes as follows: mid autumn is … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
gossamer — [[t]gɒ̱səmə(r)[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n You use gossamer to indicate that something is very light, thin, or delicate. [LITERARY] ...the daring gossamer dresses of sheer black lace … English dictionary