contexture

contexture (countable and uncountable, plural contextures)

1. A weaving together of parts.
2. A body or structure made by interweaving or assembling parts.
3. The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing.
4. The structural character of a thing.
   • Sir H. Wotton

     He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.

5. Context.

contexture (third-person singular simple present contextures, present participle contexturing, simple past and past participle contextured)

1. (transitive) To weave together.

• contexture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɛks.tyʁ/

contexture f (plural contextures)

1. contexture

• “contexture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

contextūre

1. vocative masculine singular of contextūrus