Usually means: Extended metaphors with complex comparisons.
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  1. conceits: Merriam-Webster
  2. conceits: Collins English Dictionary
  3. conceits: Vocabulary.com
  4. Conceits, conceits: Wordnik
  5. conceits: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. conceits: Wiktionary
  7. conceits: Dictionary.com
  8. conceits: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. conceits: Encyclopedia

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  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (conceit)

noun:  (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
noun:  The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
noun:  Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
noun:  (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
noun:  (now rare, dialectal) Esteem, favourable opinion.
noun:  (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
noun:  (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
noun:  (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
noun:  Design; pattern.
verb:  (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To conceive.
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