anfractures

Noun

anfracture (plural anfractures)

1. (obsolete) A mazy winding.
   • 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.1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 576
2. A fissure or cavity that traces an irregular path.
   • 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?1904, Paul de Kock, Madame Pantalon, page 197