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Encyclopedia Britannica



GOSSAMER

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 268 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOSSAMER , a fine,
thread
  like and filmy substance spun by small spiders, which is seen covering stubble fields and gorse bushes, and floating in the air iii clear weather; especially in the autumn. By transference anything light, unsubstantial or flimsy is known as "gossamer." A thin gauzy material used for trimming and millinery, resembling the " chiffon " of to-day, was formerly known as gossamer; and in the early Victorian period it was a
term
  used in the hat
trade
 , for
silk
  hats of very light
weight
 .
The word is obscure in origin, it is found in numerous forms in
English
 , and is apparently taken from gose, goose and somere, summer. The Germans have Madchensommer, maidens' summer, and Altweibersommer, old women's summer, as well as Sommerfaden, summer-threads, as equivalent to the
English
  gossamer, the connexion apparently being that gossamer is seen most frequently in the warm days of
late
  autumn (St Martin's summer) when geese are also in season. Another suggestion is that the word is a corruption of gaze a Marie (gauze of Mary) through the legend that gossamer was origin-ally the threads which fell away from the Virgin's
shroud
  on her assumption.


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