intertexture
Americannoun
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the act of interweaving or the condition of being interwoven.
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something formed by interweaving.
noun
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the act or process of interweaving or the condition of having been interwoven
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something that has been interwoven
Etymology
Origin of intertexture
Example Sentences
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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
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
The sense is carried on through a long intertexture of complicated clauses, and, as nothing is distinguished, nothing is remembered.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Samuel Johnson
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
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 Torquato Tasso
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