Gossamer: alternatives and connections

Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.

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Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.

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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.

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A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

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A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

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of Net

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One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

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of Veil

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A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

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A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

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The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

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Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

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Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.

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Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; e…

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Composed of film or films.

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Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

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Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

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Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transp…

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Having the form or nature of vapor.

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