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say it: GAH-suh-mur
gossamer is a noun and adjective meaning "a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
“this smallest and most ethereal of birds”
“gossamer shading through his playing”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gossamer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.