gossamer
- n a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
- n filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- s characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
gossamer shading through his playing - s so thin as to transmit light
gossamer cobwebs
gothic
- n extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
- n a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
- n a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
- a characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
- a of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
- a of or relating to the Goths
- s as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
- s characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
gothic novels like `Frankenstein'