Both Uses of
gossamer
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- It's like a fine fine veil or web they have all over the skin, fine like what do you call it gossamer, and they're always spinning it out of them, fine as anything, like rainbow colours without knowing it.†
Chpt 13
- How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.†
Chpt 14 *
Definition:
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(gossamer) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
or:
so thin as to transmit light