Both Uses of
intricate
in
The House of Mirth
- All Jack has to do to get everything he wants is to keep quiet and let that girl marry him; whereas I have to calculate and contrive, and retreat and advance, as if I were going through an intricate dance, where one misstep would throw me hopelessly out of time.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- It was apparently Trenor himself who had been occupying the seat in question, for it was overhung by a cloud of cigar smoke, and near it stood one of those intricate folding tables which British ingenuity has devised to facilitate the circulation of tobacco and spirits.†
Chpt 1.13
Definition:
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(intricate) complicated -- having many complexly arranged elements