Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with cobwebs.
- In botany, covered with loose, white, tangled, slender hairs, resembling the web of a spider.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in cobwebs.
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- adjective Covered with
cobwebs
Etymologies
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Examples
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But to Anjali and the other bright-eyed "freshers" in Bangalore, the house is an absurd, cobwebbed relic.
Rock City By Way Of Bangalore Sam Sacks 2011
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But to Anjali and the other bright-eyed "freshers" in Bangalore, the house is an absurd, cobwebbed relic.
Rock City By Way Of Bangalore Sam Sacks 2011
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For thousands more questions and answers take a trip through the cobwebbed corridors of the Knowledge archive"This week Danish tennis world No1 Caroline Wozniacki – a Liverpool fan as I – warmed up in her Liverpool shirt before beating Nadia Petrova in Doha," writes Mikkel Andreas Beck.
At which grounds can you watch football for free? | The Knowledge 2011
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Beneath the allegedly young idealism of Occupy Wall Street are very cobwebbed assumptions about societal permanence.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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She prefers to live in the cobwebbed corners of her dark mind writing paranormal romance with a Steampunk twist.
TeeMorris.com » Blog Archive » GUEST BLOGPOST: Wherein the Tinker’s Art Is Discussed 2010
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So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication.
Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay 2011
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The same goes for James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), which, in any case, doesn't hold a cobwebbed candelabrum to Mel Brooks's classic Young Frankenstein (1974).
Stefan Beck: Wrap Party: Freund's The Mummy and Baba Ghanoush Stefan Beck 2010
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There may have been some initial exculpatory talk about cobwebbed values – collateral damage from a career-long walling-up within the dungeon of football – but this evaporated with the first airing of the phrase "Would you smash it?"
Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay 2011
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The same goes for James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), which, in any case, doesn't hold a cobwebbed candelabrum to Mel Brooks's classic Young Frankenstein (1974).
Stefan Beck: Wrap Party: Freund's The Mummy and Baba Ghanoush Stefan Beck 2010
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She prefers to live in the cobwebbed corners of her dark mind writing paranormal romance with a Steampunk twist.
TeeMorris.com » Blog Archive » GUEST BLOGPOST: Wherein the Tinker’s Art Is Discussed 2010
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