Gossamer

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Gossamer can be:

• Common name for spider silk
• A very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric, see textile manufacturing terminology
• 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, an unreleased song 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