anfracture
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But that these Trochisks may be right made, the whitest and light pulp of Coloquintida must be selected, and not onely incided, put pulverated small: being crass, and introsumed, it moves the Dysentery, and abrades the intestines from such portions as are contained in its gyres and anfractures."
- "In some of the saloons and galleries which surround the celebrated "Court of Lions," we still see colors, applied formerly by the Arabs in the anfractures of the arabesque figures, remaining in all their integrity ."
- "The hair and mucus found in the multiplicity of anfractures which help to constitute the nasal anatomy purify the air, which comes more or less charged with fine particles of dust and other irritable matter"
- "Who would have thought that in the anfractures of the rocks, in nooks where the sun had never penetrated, one would find rhododendrons, heath, mimosas, crocuses, jasmine, Chinese primroses, and laurel-thyme?"
- "Retracing our steps a little, we go down through the woods by a winding path to Saint-Berthevin's Pulpit, a little chapel consecrated to that saint and situated in an anfracture of the rock and placed just under the plateau where we were standing a few minutes ago."
- "The sly machinations of the ocean had been defeated; the demons that dwell far down in the worm-eaten anfractures of the island caves were foiled ."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ānfrāctus