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interlacement|ɪntəˈleɪsmənt|
Also 7 enter-.
[f. interlace v. + -ment. Cf. F. entrelacement (12th c. in Hatz.–Darm.).]
1. The action of interlacing or condition of being interlaced; alternate crossing of threads, lines, or branches; also concr., an interlaced arrangement or structure.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 300 The wheelings, the windings, and enterlacements of the celestiall bodies. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 421 Whence there results an interlacement resembling mat-work. 1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 324 Formed..by the interlacement or anastomosis of their minutest branches. 1881W. G. Palgrave Phra-Bat in Macm. Mag. XLV. 33 The dense interlacement of the bamboo thicket.
2. Complicated or intricate intermingling.
1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. iv. 202 There might be such an interlacement of poor Peter's former and latter intentions. 1891Spectator 4 Apr., Below Cape de Verde..the interlacement of nationalities is exceedingly complicated. |