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

  • 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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