contexture

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONTEXTURE, noun The manner of interweaving several parts into one body; the disposition and union of the constituent parts of a thing, with respect to each other; composition of parts; constitution; as a silk of admirable contexture He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.
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