daedalia

English

Etymology

Back-formation from Daedalian.

Noun

daedalia pl (plural only)

  1. Miscellaneous items of an especially complex, intricate, ingenious (etc.) nature
    A curious collection of devices, mechanisms, and other daedalia.
    • 1976, James Nohrnberg, The Analogy of The Faerie Queene, Princeton University Press, page 23:
      "As another example, machines are epic, but automatons belong to romance. In Book V, Talus is a romance marvel, like all such daedalia; but in the allegory he has some of the functions and significance of an epic siege-engine."
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