- n. Plural form of flexure. “The general layout of every floor
develops on the always different flexures, that enriches of
shades the lightness of wall coloured mastic.” “Between the
narratives, a story takes shape, tracing how the flexures of
life become set in patterns.” “For the lens, you divide up the
panels, you add flexures.” “The quartz rock must have been quite
pasty when it underwent such remarkable flexures without being
shattered into fragments.” “When the body is still more
elongated, and resembles that of a serpent rather than that of a
fish, as is the case in the Smuraena, there are absolutely no
fins at all; and locomotion is effected by the flexures of the
body, the water being put to the same use by these fishes as is
the ground by serpents.” “For the veins have the shape of the
entire body, like a sketch of a mannikin; in such a way that the
whole frame seems to be filled up with little veins in
attenuated subjects-for the space occupied by flesh in fat
individuals is filled with little vei