anfractuous
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Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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 George Barr McCutcheon
For throughout the labyrinth of all this anfractuous narrative there was indeed one guiding ray of light.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More
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 T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
