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

Of the first of these materials, tortoise-shell, that best adapted to manufacturing purposes is the shell, or scales of a horny contexture which inclose the sea-tortoise, Testudo imbricata.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.

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

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

Collateral events are so artfully woven into the contexture of his principal story, that they cannot be disjoined without leaving it lacerated and broken.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel