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finespun

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finespun [ˈfaɪnˈspʌn]
adj
1. spun or drawn out to a fine thread
2. excessively subtle or refined; not practical
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Adj.1.finespun - developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
delicate
refined - (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
2.finespun - developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
hairsplitting
precise - sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"


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The Sainsbury supermarket in London's Camden Town for instance (AR October 1989) used all the finespun, shell-making experience of the practice, but at the same time related the huge bulk of the building to the scale of the nineteenth-century domestic context, without in the least descending to picturesque scene painting.
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Note to Marc: the coat is too finespun for even the delicate wash cycle.
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