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finespun

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fine⋅spun

[fahyn-spuhn]
–adjective
1. spun or drawn out to a fine thread.
2. highly or excessively refined or subtle.
Also, fine-spun.


Origin:
1640–50; fine 1 + spun
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finespun

adjective
1. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense" 
2. developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions" 
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