GOSSAMER
Gossamer
Gossamer is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The character is a hairy, red monster. His rectangular body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. The monster's main trait, however, is bright uncombed red hair. In fact, a gag in the 1980 short Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century lampoons this by revealing that Gossamer is, in fact, composed entirely of hair. He was originally voiced by Mel Blanc and has been voiced by ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Gossamer (Looney Tunes)
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gossamer
Noun
- A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.
- A soft, sheer fabric.
- Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
Adjective
- Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
- "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!" — Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
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