Both Uses of
gossamer
in
David Copperfield
- We made merry about Dora's wanting to be liked, and Dora said I was a goose, and she didn't like me at any rate, and the short evening flew away on gossamer-wings.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- But she was so incorporated with my existence, that it was the idlest of all fancies, and would soon rise out of my reach and sight, like gossamer floating in the air.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(gossamer) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
or:
so thin as to transmit light