The word “gossamer” has always been one of my favorite words. I know that I first read it somewhere as a child and even though the context (the passage was about a spider’s web) made it pretty clear what the word meant, I still, as was my habit when confronted with new words, looked it up in the dictionary and so discovered that it could also refer to a light, delicate material, such as a “fairy’s gossamer wings.”
gossamer
noun
gos·sa·mer \ˈgä-sə-mər also ˈgäz-mər, ˈgä-zə-\
: a piece of a spider’s web
: a very light or delicate material
Full Definition of GOSSAMER
1: a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather
2: something light, delicate, or insubstantial