Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mass or collection of cobwebs.
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- noun A mass of
cobwebs ; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
Etymologies
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cobweb + -ery
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Examples
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Welcome is his word, there where he speaks and works; and growing ever welcomer; for it alone goes to the heart of the business: logical cobwebbery shrinks itself together; and thou seest a thing, how it is, how is may be worked with.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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