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yarn

noun as in fiber for knitting

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noun as in story, often long and made-up

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During their first class they chose the legend of Baby Blue — a time-worn grade-school yarn about a ghost named Baby Blue who appears if you say her name three times in a row.

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A shoemaker in town constructed the ball out of double-twisted woolen yarn, covered in calf’s skin.

Sarah is an avid crafts enthusiast, with an abundance of yarn, beads and other art materials in her home.

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The web of their lives “is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” to filch from Shakespeare, and Venable combines virtues and vices in unexpected patterns.

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You certainly don’t have to be a deeply invested cinephile to fall hard for this yarn, because the performances and visuals are captivating in themselves.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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