Cobwebbery
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?"
Example
More examples"When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?"
Etymology
From cobweb + -ery.
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