Meaning of redtape | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of red tape.

alt-of, archaic, uncountable

Examples

“[…] what blind obstructions, fatal indolences, pedantries, stupidities, on the right and on the left, he had to do battle with; what a world-wide jungle of redtape, inhabited by doleful creatures, deaf or nearly so to human reason or entreaty, he had entered on; […]”

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