All 4 Uses
gossamer
in
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
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- She paused, expecting him to smile, but he went on smoking his cigarette, and I noticed, faint as gossamer, the line between his brows.†
Chpt 3 *
- A change had come upon our afternoon; it was not the thing of gossamer it had been.†
Chpt 4
- The nightdress was inside the case, thin as gossamer, apricot in colour.†
Chpt 14
- 'I came away in rather a hurry,' he said to Mrs Van Hopper, a line, thin as gossamer, between his brows.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(gossamer) extremely light, delicate, airy, or thin
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)