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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Gossamer

According to legend, this delicate thread is the ravelling of the Virgin Mary's winding-sheet, which fell to earth on her ascension to heaven. It is said to be God's seam, i.e. God's thread. Philologically it is the Latin gossipin-us, cotton.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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