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Gossamer can be:

• Common name for spider silk
• A very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric, see glossary of textile manufacturing
• Gossamer, a novel by Lois Lowry
• Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter, found in his collection Vacuum Diagrams, and The Hard SF Renaissance anthology
• Gossamer (Looney Tunes), a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons
• The Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, both human-powered aircraft
• The code name of the Apple Macintosh motherboards present in first-generation G3 Macs
• The Gossamer Project or Gossamer Archive, a large X-Files fan fiction archive
• Gossamer, a song performed exclusively live by The Smashing Pumpkins
• The Gossamer Strand, an instrumental song by Deadsoul Tribe from the album A Lullaby for the Devil
• The gossamer rings of Jupiter
• Gossamer, a synchronized lightweight authentication protocol designed with privacy in mind (cryptography)

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Over faded heath-flowers spun, or thorny furze,
The filmy gossamer is lightly spread;
Waving in every sighing air that stirs,
As fairy fingers had entwined the thread:
A thousand trembling orbs of lucid dew
Spangle the texture of the fairy loom,
As if soft sylphs, lamenting as they flew,
Had wept departed summer's transient bloom:
But the wind rises, and the turf receives
The glittering web:--So, evanescent, fade
Bright views that youth with sanguine heart believes:
So vanish schemes of bliss, by fancy made;
Which, fragile as the fleeting dews of morn,
Leave but the withered heath, and barren thorn!

From LoveToKnow 1911