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
Such plays were of too thin contexture to satisfy the somewhat gross and lumpish taste of a Roman audience.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
Now, here the beloved apostle shows us this divine contexture of the gospel.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
This islet, of curious contexture, resembles as near as possible a cup turned upside down, from which a fuliginous vapor arises.
From Facing the Flag by Jules Verne
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 Robert Hooke
