weft
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of weft
before 900; Middle English, Old English; akin to weave
Example Sentences
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“These women’s stories emerged from history. Using the metaphor of warp and weft, these women are living in history. They are weaving their lives through history. It’s influencing them. They are influencing it.”
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
By dating the Tatsipataa cloth remains, Hayeur Smith was able to correlate the ratio of weft to warp threads in each sample with published records of climate data.
From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022
They were dappled, like the hues in nature, thanks to the unique weave of the textured and irregular fabric weft.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022
Revealed in this warp and weft is the overlap in the behavioral patterns of humans and wolves, as well as the limits of language.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2021
To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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