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
A description of the shape and curious contexture of Feathers: and some conjectures thereupon.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
A theory, in short, which for the reason is a veritable contexture of confusions.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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
The tongue is a contexture of small muscles and nerves so very supple, that it winds and turns like a serpent, with unconceivable mobility and pliantness.
From The Existence of God by Henry Morley
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