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WE SEARCH FOR THE DEFINITION OF LABYRINTH IN A DICTIONARY:
1. Name of some legendary architectural constructions of ancient times,
with ingenuous and complicated structures, with twisted rooms,
corridors, tunnels, so that it was hard to orientate for people who got
in. Crete labyrinth, according to the myth, was built from Dedalus for
the Minotaur, Minos' horrendous son.
2. Generically, any tangle of roads or paths. In the gardens and in the
parks belonging to Italian villas in '600 and '700. Tangle of boulevards
and roads with large hedges or walls on the sides.
3. Patience game belonging to brain teasers game, it consists in finding,
in a tangle of roads, the right path that, from one of the entrances,
brings to the exit.
4. Complicated situation you don't know how to get out of.