maze
/ˈmeɪz/ noun B1- A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
- Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
Plural mazes
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A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars’ heads of the Baskervilles.
On the evening of the day on which Valentine had learned of the flight of Eugénie and the arrest of Benedetto,—Villefort having retired as well as Noirtier and d’Avrigny,—her thoughts wandered in a confused maze, alternately reviewing her own situation and the events she had just heard.
London has a confusing maze of winding roads, narrow alleys, and dead ends.
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