redtape

English

Noun

redtape (uncountable)

1. 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; […]

Anagrams

• adepter, pad-tree, pre-date, predate, readept, retaped, tapered