cobwebby
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The first two efforts, in Philadelphia and New Jersey, were flat and cobwebby following a 10-day layoff.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Traditionally, Miss Havisham is presented as a dusty figure enrobed in cobwebby lace.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2023
The same fabric spilled from a long black cutaway, seams visible and splitting; was transformed into an abstract bolero atop cobwebby black lace; and got spliced with zebra stripes, old damask and brocade.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
Tess Coady, 21, got a bronze in snowboard slopestyle, said she benefited from feeling “less cobwebby than yesterday,” said the medal meant “the world” and said, “This is insane.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
The crow resembled more a humpy ball with straggling tail feathers, feathers as wispy and disordered as Gwystyl’s cobwebby hair.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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