contexture

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We are all framed of flaps and patches, and of so shapeless and diverse a contexture, that every piece and every moment playeth his part.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

Strengthened as was his monarchical power in Spain, in Germany he found it hemmed in and fettered by the estates of the empire and the whole contexture of political relations.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

There is a very extensive manufactory of red woollen caps at Fas, the contexture of which is well deserving investigation.

From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey

All these are so interwoven, that the attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole, and, if not entirely destroy, would very much depreciate, the value of all the parts.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

These threads that compose this fine contexture, though they are as small as those that constitute the finer sorts of Silks, have notwithstanding nothing of their glossie, pleasant, and lively reflection.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert