gossamery
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Adj. structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical. textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun. rough, gritty; smooth. smooth as silk, smooth as satin.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Written on the First Leaf of a Lady's Album Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing, First leaf of spring!
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary
And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costume,—rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
On, gay adventurers, bravely ride the billowy furze, Golden foil and dewy pearls are swaying to a tune: Quaff the brew of red raspberry through the vine veils gossamery.
From Ballads of Peace in War by Earls, Michael
But I must not anticipate—a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken gossamery cloud, soft as a baby's check.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various