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What does warp and woof mean?

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Noun
  1. The threads in a woven fabric, composed of the warp (threads running lengthwise) and woof (threads running crosswise) to create the texture of the fabric.
  2. (by extension) The fundamental structure of any process or system.
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This earth is made too subtly, of too multiple warp and woof, for prophecy.
How sad are the D.C.s of the world who seek only to rend and never to mesh with the warp and woof of a community.
Of this warp and woof have all the strange patterns of Spanish life been woven.
I leave as quietly as I entered, carrying with me privileged knowledge — the warp and woof as well as the quirks of this scholar's habitat.
But the warp and woof of the business changed hardly at all, nor should it have.
The very legend of the Old South, for example, is warp and woof of the Southern mind.

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