weftage

English

Etymology

From weft +‎ -age.

Noun

weftage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) texture (of fabric)
   • 1682, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants (book IV, page 156, section 21)

     And one Example we have (it may be more than one) wherein Nature shews, though not a greater, yet a different Art; and that is the Palm-Net. For whereas in other Plants, the Webb is made betwixt the Lignous-Strings and the Fibers of the Parenchyma, only visible through a Microscope: here the said Strings themselves are Interwoven, and the Weftage apparent to the bare Eye.

Derived terms

• interweftage

References

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