different between gossamer vs tulle

English

Etymology

From Middle English gossomer, gosesomer, gossummer (attested since around 1300, and only in reference to webs or other light things), usually thought to derive from gos (“goose”) + somer (“summer”) and to have initially referred to a period of warm weather in late autumn when geese were eaten — compare Middle Scots goesomer, goe-summer (“summery weather in late autumn; St Martin's summer”) (later connected in folk-etymology to go) — and to have been transferred to cobwebs because they were frequent then or because they were likened to goose-down. Skeat says that in Craven the webs were called summer-goose, and compares Scots and dialectal English use of summer-colt in reference to "exhalations seen rising from the ground in hot weather". Weekley notes that both the webs and the weather have fantastical names in most European languages: compare German Altweibersommer (“Indian summer; cobwebs, gossamer”, literally “old wives' summer”) and other terms listed there.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.s?.m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.s?.m?/

Noun

gossamer (countable and uncountable, plural gossamers)

1. A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
2. A soft, sheer fabric.
3. Anything delicate, light and flimsy.

Derived terms

• gossamery (adjective)
• gossamer-thin (adjective)

Translations

Adjective

gossamer (comparative more gossamer, superlative most gossamer)

1. Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
   • 1857, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Daisy's Necklace: And What Came of It

     The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!

Synonyms

• gossamery
• gossamer-thin

Translations

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tulle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l
• Homophone: tool

Noun

tulle (countable and uncountable, plural tulles)

1. A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tuell, ullet

Estonian

Noun

tulle

1. illative singular of tuli

Finnish

Verb

tulle

1. Potential present connegative form of tulla.

Anagrams

• lelut

French

Etymology

Named after Tulle, where the fabric was first manufactured.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyl/

Noun

tulle f (uncountable)

1. tulle

Further reading

• “tulle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Verb

tulle

1. Alternative form of tollen (“to bring”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

tulle

1. locative singular masculine/neuter of tulla, which is alternative form of tulya, which is gerundive of tuleti (“to weigh”)
2. accusative plural masculine of tulla, which is alternative form of tulya, which is gerundive of tuleti (“to weigh”)
3. vocative singular feminine of tulla, which is alternative form of tulya, which is gerundive of tuleti (“to weigh”)

Spanish

Verb

tulle

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of tullir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tullir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tullir.