weft
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The very warp and weft of language are clichés, worn metaphors, secondhand phrases copied so often that their lack of originality, of idiosyncrasy, is what allows them to have communicative power.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023
Flood stories live in the warp and weft of legends and religions and nations — Gilgamesh, Noah, the Greeks and Aztecs, the Norse and Native Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
The Greenlanders' cloth started out identical to the Icelanders' warp-dominant fabric but eventually shifted to contain more threads in its weft than its warp.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2022
They were dappled, like the hues in nature, thanks to the unique weave of the textured and irregular fabric weft.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
