mizmaze
mizmaze noun: a maze or labyrinth.
Noun
mizmaze (plural mizmazes)
- A maze or labyrinth.
- In the perplexing mizmaze of the modern residence, in the undue attention to the multiplex mysteries of the modern wardrobe, in the multiform engagements of the modern individual, the family is losing its identity.1898 February, Kate Kingsley Ide, “The Primary Social Settlement”, in Popular Science Monthly
- So the young man took the end of the silken string in his left hand, and his gold-hiked sword, ready drawn from its scabbard, in the other, and trod boldly into the inscrutable labyrinth. How this labyrinth was built is more than I can tell you, but so cunningly contrived a mizmaze was never seen...1918, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood tales, The Minotaur
- A state of bewilderment.
- "Not a bit of it," responded our friend. "They come along so fast that I was all in a mizmaze trying to keep track on 'em.[…]"1922, Mazo de la Roche, Explorers of the Dawn, Chapter 7
Forms of mizmaze
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Questions about mizmaze
- What does mizmaze mean?
- Mizmaze means a maze or labyrinth.
- What part of speech is mizmaze?
- Mizmaze is a noun.
- What is the plural of mizmaze?
- The plural of mizmaze is mizmazes.
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