Crossword clues for finespun
finespun
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finespun \Fine"spun`\, a. Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.
Wiktionary
a. 1 spun into a fine thread 2 delicate and subtle, with fine detail
WordNet
adj. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense" [syn: delicate]
developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions" [syn: hairsplitting]
Usage examples of "finespun".
The softness of feathers and finespun fabric was foreign to him, and the night must be warm besides.
Her wellturned ankle displayed its perfect proportions beneath her skirt and just the proper amount and no more of her shapely limbs encased in finespun hose with highspliced heels and wide garter tops.
Weavers Lands allowed the outdoor use of linen and finespun tree-yarn.
Those thin, scandalously draped dresses, one green, the other blue, were silk, not linen or finespun wool.
Pavilion of Recurrence looks like an Arabian tent, a finespun marvel of white-and-scarlet cloth billowing in a place of sand and mirage.
She pulled out a soft gray dress of finespun wool, and a rich gold and brown striped taffeta with a high collar, both of which looked far too fine for the likes of her.
Never had he seen so large a gem, and the finespun gold surrounding the stone was worth a small fortune by itself.
A science which comes to such conclusions is a science which moves in metaphysical abstractions, and we shall see that all these finespun questions which abound in classical science lose all practical value before the necessity of saving society from the plague of crime.
When she arrived back at her Casa her arms were filled with feminine treasures, including slippers and finespun shifts and stockings.
They were dressed alike, as well, in thick, floor-length cloaks of purple finespun cloth interlaced with gold thread, the backs of their heads shrouded in cowls.
Like the others, he wore a robe of unadorned white linen, so finespun it was nearly transparent.
Sanchi thought he saw an actual thread begin to twine itself into being just beyond the ghosts, a finespun thread that lay in a floating noose around them all and only waited for his Answer to pull tight.
Her hair was a spill of finespun night that trailed around exposed breasts and perfect torso.
He spliced in the extra Amps and laid back and was at once in a gossamer finespun holotime of delight and transfigured brassy radiance.
Over a far mesa drifted a four-winged thing that glinted like finespun copper in the Eaters slanting hotblue radiance.