Both Uses of
inextricable
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Gringoire had become involved, in his pursuit of the gypsy, in that inextricable labyrinth of alleys, squares, and closed courts which surround the ancient sepulchre of the Saints-Innocents, and which resembles a ball of thread tangled by a cat.†
Chpt 1.2.4
- From a bird's-eye view, these three burgs, the City, the Town, and the University, each presented to the eye an inextricable skein of eccentrically tangled streets.†
Chpt 1.3.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(inextricable) impossible to extract, disentangle, or avoid; or hopelessly intricate
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus