From the English word, which means "spider threads spun in fields of stubble in late fall" (apparently derived from Old English gos "goose" and sumer "summer"). A fictional bearer is Gossamer Beynon in Dylan Thomas' 1954 play 'Under Milk Wood' (Butcher Beynon's schoolteacher daughter).
Cunégonde
Gender:Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced:KUY-NEH-GAWND
French form of Kunigunde. Voltaire used this name in his novel Candide (1759).