Silken vs Gossamer - What's the difference?
silken | gossamer | Related terms |
Made of silk.
Having a smooth, soft, or light texture, like that of silk; suggestive of silk.
* 1994 , , ch. 2:
Smoothly uttered; flowing, subtle, or convincing in presentation.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Dressed in silk.
* Shakespeare
A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.
A soft, sheer fabric.
Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
* (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (1836-1907)
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, passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}
Silken is a related term of gossamer.
As adjectives the difference between silken and gossamer
is that silken is made of silk while gossamer is tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.As a verb silken
is to render silken or silklike.As a noun gossamer is
a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.silken
English
Adjective
(-)- a silken veil
- He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.
- Silken terms precise.
- A silken wanton.
Anagrams
* English adjectives ending in -engossamer
English
Noun
Derived terms
* gossamery (adjective)Adjective
(en adjective)- The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!
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