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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Drawn out to extreme fineness or tenuity, as wire; hence, figuratively, drawn out with too much subtlety: as, fine-drawn conclusions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice.
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“Justen's eyes darted from one mass of heavy iron to another, from anvil to iron casing to finedrawn turbine blade.”
The Order War
“Harold's was not a nature of finedrawn distinctions; he wrote as he fought, swift and determined, and the letter was soon finished, read, and approved by Jack.”
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