anfractuosity

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  1. noun The condition or quality of having many twists and turns.
  2. noun A winding channel, passage, or crevice.
  3. noun A complicated or involved process.

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  • Whereas upon that pestilential, enviable staircase to the old dressmaker's, since there was no other, no service stair in the building, one saw in the evening outside every door an empty, unwashed milk-can set out, in readiness for the morning round, upon the door-mat; on the despicable, enormous staircase which Swann was at that moment climbing, on either side of him, at different levels, before each anfractuosity made in its walls by the window of the porter's lodge or the entrance to a set of rooms, representing the departments of indoor service which they controlled, and doing homage for them to the guests, —  Swann's Way
 

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  1. = French anfractuosité: see anfractuous and -ity.
 

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/ænfræktjuˈɑsəti/
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