PENELOPE'S WEB
\pənˈɛləpˌiz wˈɛb], \pənˈɛləpˌiz wˈɛb], \p_ə_n_ˈɛ_l_ə_p_ˌi_z w_ˈɛ_b]\
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(Myth.) A web woven each day by Penelope, the wife of the absent Odysseus (Ulysses), in the Odyssey, and undone each night ; as a device for baffling her suitors, who were told that she would choose one of them as her husband when the web was finished.
By Henry Percy Smith
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