Meanings
- attributiveoftenA text or utterance of remarkable length or complexity.
You get an exhaustive, War and Peace-style description of your system.
1998, Bill Camarda, Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide2 more examples
She proceeded to launch into this War and Peace–length speech about honesty and community and respect and all those other topics that seriously get on my nerves.
2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber, Random House AustraliaI will refer to this as the War and Peace e-mail—a painfully long e-mail that many will not read. You remember Tolstoy's War and Peace, a very, very long and thick book. The consumer response to the initial e-mail was less than 1 percent.
2012, J. M. Barry, L. C. Coats, Selling in Today's Economy: Applying Laws of Physics and Performance Art to Gain the Cutting Edge, iUniverse
Origin
From the title of the novel War and Peace by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, noted for its considerable length.
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