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pretextures

pretextures is the plural of pretexture.

pretextures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pretexture.

Meaning of pretexture

Noun

pretexture (plural pretextures)

  1. (obsolete) pretext
    • Now we haue ftudyed both textures of words, and pretextures of manners to shrowd dishonesty.1624, Edward Sutton, Anthropophagus: the Man-eater, page 34
  2. A texture that is applied beforehand.
    • Pore formation did not occur at the ridges of the honeycomb cells while NPs were grouped at the center of the hexagonal Al pretextures.2007 July, Seung Hun Hun, Doh Hyung Riu, Jinsub Choi, Sung Joong Kim, Eun Ju Jin, Dong Gun Shin, Kwang Youn Cho, “Surface and bottom structures of grouped alumina nanopores”, in Journal of the Korean...

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Questions about pretextures

What is pretextures the plural of?
Pretextures is the plural of pretexture.

Words near pretextures in the dictionary

  1. pretextuality
  2. pretextually
  3. pretextuous
  4. pretexture
  5. pretextured
  6. pretextures
  7. pretexturing
  8. prethalamic
  9. prethalamus
  10. prethcamide
  11. prethe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretextures (page history and authors); pretexture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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