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intertexture en · NOUN

Etymology

From inter- + texture.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven.
2. (countable, uncountable) That which is interwoven.
   • skirted thick with intertexture firm / Of thorny boughs 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
   • 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. 1858, George MacDonald, Phantastes:
   • Now the co-presence of something regular, something to which the mind has been accustomed when in an unexcited or a less excited state, cannot but have great efficacy in tempering and restraining the passion by an intertexture of ordinary feeling 1800, William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, Preface:
   • knit in nice intertexture 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, To a Friend:

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