interlace
verb (used without object)
to cross one another, typically passing alternately over and under, as if woven together; intertwine.
interlacement
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a word derived from
interlace.
Example Sentences
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He was trying to alter them so that they would shut more firmly, and, as the interlacement of such braces was complicated, be had got himself in a muddle.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The stems of the trees arose from the clear, still water, in which every interlacement of their boughs was reflected with unequaled purity.
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne
Then his mind softened with fraternal instincts—strange interlacement of loathing and affection.
From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
In another moment the swiftly moving vehicle was dissolved in the glitter of Regent Street and I fell to musing upon the curious interlacement of parts in this picture puzzle of life.
From A Jongleur Strayed Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane by Richard Le Gallienne
Wyatt attempted to follow the order and interlacement of the Italian rhymes more closely, but he too concluded his sonnet with a couplet.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
