gossamer (noun)

a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture

cobweb, gossamer (adj)

filaments from a web that was spun by a spider

ethereal, gossamer (adj)

characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy

"this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"

diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby (adj)

so thin as to transmit light

"a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

gossamer (Noun)

A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.

gossamer (Noun)

A soft, sheer fabric.

gossamer (Noun)

Anything delicate, light and flimsy.

gossamer (Adjective)

Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

Gossamer

Gossamer is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The character is a hairy, red monster. His rectangular body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. The monster's main trait, however, is bright uncombed red hair. In fact, a gag in the 1980 short Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century lampoons this by revealing that Gossamer is, in fact, composed entirely of hair. He was originally voiced by Mel Blanc and has been voiced by Joe Alaskey, Jim Cummings, and Dee Bradley Baker. The word "gossamer" means any sort of thin, fragile, transparent material — in particular, it can refer to a kind of delicate, sheer gauze or a light cobweb. The name is meant to be ironic, since the character is large, menacing, and destructive.