The difference between Gossamer and Gossamery
When used as adjectives, gossamer means tenuous, light, filmy or delicate, whereas gossamery means like gossamer.
Gossamer is also noun with the meaning: a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
check bellow for the other definitions of Gossamer and Gossamery
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Gossamer as a noun:
A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
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Gossamer as a noun:
A soft, sheer fabric.
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Gossamer as a noun:
Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
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Gossamer as an adjective:
Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
Examples:
"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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Gossamery as an adjective:
Like gossamer; flimsy.