redtape
English
editNoun
editredtape (uncountable)
- Archaic form of red tape.
- quoted in 2010, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, The Works of Thomas Carlyle (page 87)
- […] 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; […]
- quoted in 2010, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, The Works of Thomas Carlyle (page 87)