intertexture

From inter- +‎ texture.

intertexture (countable and uncountable, plural intertextures)

1. The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven.
2. That which is interwoven.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, To a Friend:

     knit in nice intertexture

   • 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC:

     skirted thick with intertexture firm / Of thorny boughs

   • 1800, William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, Preface:

     Now the co-presence of something regular, something to which the mind has been accustomed when in an unexcited or a less excited state, cannot but have great efficacy in tempering and restraining the passion by an intertexture of ordinary feeling

   • 1858, George MacDonald, Phantastes:

     At length, after walking a long way in the woods, we arrived at another thicket, through the intertexture of which was glimmering a pale rosy light.

• “intertexture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.