gossamer

Etymology
From, , (attested since around 1300, and only in reference to webs or other light things), usually thought to derive from  +  and to have initially referred to a period of warm weather in late autumn when geese were eaten    — compare Middle 🇨🇬 and dialectal , both later connected in folk-etymology to )  — and to have been transferred to cobwebs because they were frequent then or because they were likened to goose-down.    Skeat says that in  the webs were called summer-goose, and compares Scots and dialectal English use of summer-colt in reference to "exhalations seen rising from the ground in hot weather". Weekley notes that both the webs and the weather have fantastical names in most European languages: compare  and other terms listed there.

Noun

 * 1) A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
 * 2) A soft, sheer fabric.
 * 3) Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
 * 1) A soft, sheer fabric.
 * 2) Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
 * 1) A soft, sheer fabric.
 * 2) Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
 * 1) Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
 * 1) Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
 * 1) Anything delicate, light and flimsy.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: есенна паяжина
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 游絲,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: herfstdraad (usually in the plural: herfstdraden)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: fil de la vierge,
 * German: Altweiberfäden,, , Herbstfäden, Herbstgarn, Liebfrauenfäden, , , , , , Sommerseide
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: téada an phúca
 * Japanese: 流れ糸,
 * Korean: 거미줄
 * Manx: sneeuane
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: croisean Moire, gaoir-theas
 * Serbo-Croatian: bablje ljeto
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: gwawn, tidau'r tes, blew Medi, drifl y gwynt, drifl yr ych, hifryn


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ragfijn weefsel
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 薄い紗
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:


 * Dutch:
 * Japanese: 流れ糸のように繊細なかぼそいもの, 流れ糸のように繊細なはかないもの


 * Dutch: (tje)

Adjective

 * 1) Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

Translations

 * Finnish: seitinohut, harsomainen
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: angiangi
 * Russian:
 * Welsh:, , gwawnaidd