a knotted skein of, suit, body suit, suitcase

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An Iraqi Exodus
CAIRO -- Iraqi refugee Jenan Adnan Abdel-Jabbar arrived for the Iraqi government's free airlift back home with eight suitcases, five children and a knotted skein of hope and fear in her heart.
(By Ellen Knickmeyer, The Washington Post)


sadness like a skein of a
thousand threads.


The Fates had woven for him a skein of mingled light
and darkness; fortune and misfortune, in equal
measure and in strange intensity, were to be his.

skein

(skān)
n.

1. 1. A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil.
   2. Something suggesting the coil of a skein; a complex tangle: a twisted skein of lies.
2. A flock of geese or similar birds in flight. See synonyms at flock¹.

[Middle English skeine, from Old French escaigne.]