Gossamery

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like gossamer; flimsy; unsubstantial.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Like gossamer; flimsy.
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  • adjective. Like gossamer; flimsy.
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    "Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone.""
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