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

Example Sentences

His hair was cropped close, and the unevennesses of his cranium, thus laid bare, would have struck a phrenologist by reason of the strange intertexture of contradictory propensities.

From A Hero of Our Time by Wisdom, J. H.

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 Yule, Henry

The object of the former was to point out the general threads of primeval truth in the fabric of Paganism—that of the latter to trace the later and fanciful intertexture of superstition.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich

These, however, are all more or less intermingled, and with the greatest art; and there are numerous episodes of a like intertexture.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato

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 MacDonald, George