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"ref": "1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down, Penguin, published 1974, Part 2, Chapter 26, p. 233",
"text": "The dew and gossamer had dried early from the grass",
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"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
"word": "游絲"
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"word": "Liebfrauenfäden"
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"_dis1": "95 4 1",
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"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
"word": "Sommerfäden"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
"word": "Sommerseide"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
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"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nagareito",
"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
"word": "流れ糸"
},
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"_dis1": "95 4 1",
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"roman": "yuushi",
"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
"word": "遊糸"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geomijul",
"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
"word": "거미줄"
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"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
"word": "sneeuane"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
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"word": "babie lato"
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"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
"word": "funigel"
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"roman": "pautínka",
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"word": "паути́нка"
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"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
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"sense": "cobwebs floating in the air",
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"ref": "1894, Kate Chopin, “A Lady of Bayou St. John”, in Bayou Folk, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 306",
"text": "Madame wiped the picture with her gossamer handkerchief and impulsively pressed a tender kiss upon the painted canvas.",
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"ref": "1947, Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, New York: Signet, Scene 5, p. 84",
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"ref": "2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 14, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 231",
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"word": "流れ糸のように繊細なかぼそいもの"
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"ref": "1845, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat”, in Tales, New York: Wiley and Putnam, page 37",
"text": "There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.",
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"ref": "1857, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Daisy's Necklace: And What Came of It",
"text": "The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!",
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"ref": "1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days",
"text": "He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.",
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"ref": "1982 December 4, Mitzel, “A Sissy's Revenge”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9",
"text": "His two previous novels, though much celebrated, I found too ethereal, the style as gossamer and sticky as cotton candy.",
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},
{
"ref": "1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 2, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 83",
"text": "A gossamer blanket of coaldust floated down like a dirty blessing and gently smothered the traffic.",
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"ref": "1982 December 4, Mitzel, “A Sissy's Revenge”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9",
"text": "His two previous novels, though much celebrated, I found too ethereal, the style as gossamer and sticky as cotton candy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 2, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 83",
"text": "A gossamer blanket of coaldust floated down like a dirty blessing and gently smothered the traffic.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate."
],
"links": [
[
"Tenuous",
"tenuous"
],
[
"filmy",
"filmy"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɒ.sə.mə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɑ.sə.mɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-gossamer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dc/En-au-gossamer.ogg/En-au-gossamer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/En-au-gossamer.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gossamery"
},
{
"word": "gossamer-thin"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "seitinohut"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "harsomainen"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "filandra"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "sottile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "delicato"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "angiangi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tónkij",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "то́нкий"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "ysgafn"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "main"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "tenuous, light, filmy or delicate",
"word": "gwawnaidd"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Craven"
],
"word": "gossamer"
}
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