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[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: tortueux, from Latin tortuosus, from tortus; TORTURE1]
a tortuous path, stream, road etc has a lot of bends in it and is therefore difficult to travel along
::a tortuous path over the mountains to Kandahar
complicated and long and therefore confusing
::The book begins with a long, tortuous introduction.
-- tortuously adv