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anfractuous

[an-frak-choo-uhs] / ænˈfræk tʃu əs /


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Thin, anfractuous highways and dirt roads scarred the green and brown landscape, and as far as the eye could reach were to be seen farmhouses and barns and silos.

From Quill's Window by McCutcheon, George Barr

For throughout the labyrinth of all this anfractuous narrative there was indeed one guiding ray of light.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer

Paint me a cavernous waste shore Cast in the unstilted Cyclades, Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

From Poems by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah




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