cobweb

[…] there was stretched across his gateway a circular cobweb of the largest kind and quite entire. This looked so ominous that I actually turned aside and went in the back way.

The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age.

Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.

I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head