e/Enchanted loom

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has gloss	eng: The enchanted loom is a famous metaphor for the brain invented by the pioneering neuroscientist Charles S. Sherrington in a passage from his 1942 book Man on his nature, in which he poetically describes his conception of what happens in the cerebral cortex during arousal from sleep:
lexicalization	eng: enchanted loom
instance of	(noun) a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity metaphor