a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture

filaments from a web that was spun by a spider

[ Syn: cobweb ]

characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; this smallest and most ethereal of birds; gossamer shading through his playing

[ Syn: ethereal ]

so thin as to transmit light; 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

[ Syn: diaphanous , filmy , gauzy , gauze-like , see-through , sheer , transparent , vaporous , vapourous , cobwebby ]