contexture

American  

[kuhn-teks-cher] / kənˈtɛks tʃər /

noun

1. the arrangement and union of the constituent parts of anything; constitution; structure.

2. an interwoven structure; fabric.

3. the act of weaving together.

4. the process or manner of being woven together.

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contexture British  

/ kənˈtɛkstʃə /

noun

1. the fact, process, or manner of weaving or of being woven together

2. the arrangement of assembled parts; structure

3. an interwoven structure; fabric

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Other Word Forms

• contextural
  adjective
• contextured
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of contexture

From French, dating back to 1595–1605; see origin at context, -ure

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Example Sentences

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contexture

We are all framed of flaps and patches, and of so shapeless and diverse a contexture, that every piece and every moment playeth his part.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017

There is a very extensive manufactory of red woollen caps at Fas, the contexture of which is well deserving investigation.

From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson

It was of a loose watrish contexture, such an one, as he had seen growing out of rotten wood.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg

The contexture and combining of this monarchy and great building having been dismissed and dissolved by it, namely, in her old years, giveth as much overture and entrance as a man will to like injuries.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Of the first of these materials, tortoise-shell, that best adapted to manufacturing purposes is the shell, or scales of a horny contexture which inclose the sea-tortoise, Testudo imbricata.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

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