intertexture

American  

[in-ter-teks-cher] / ˌɪn tərˈtɛks tʃər /

noun

1. the act of interweaving or the condition of being interwoven.

2. something formed by interweaving.

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intertexture British  

/ ˌɪntəˈtɛkstʃə /

noun

1. the act or process of interweaving or the condition of having been interwoven

2. something that has been interwoven

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Etymology

Origin of intertexture

First recorded in 1640–50; inter- + texture

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Example Sentences

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intertexture

At length, after walking a long way in the woods, we arrived at another thicket, through the intertexture of which was glimmering a pale rosy light.

From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald

Pliny says King Attalus invented the intertexture of cloth with gold; but the weaving of damasks of a variety of colours was perfected at Babylon, and thence they were called Babylonian.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule

But though accepting and enforcing the doctrine by showing that the 'mixture is too subtle, the intertexture too ineffable' to admit of expression, he condemns the style which is the best illustration of its truth.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen

Or is it true, as Shelley seems to aver that such a poem is never an ideal unity, but a collection of inspired lines and phrases connected "by the intertexture of conventional phrases?"

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

I know not where else in literature to look for a work which leaves such a strong impression on the reader's mind of the intertexture of human lives.

From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot

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