See anfracture on Wiktionary
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"text": "Retracing our steps a little, we go down through the woods by a winding path to Saint-Berthevin's Pulpit, a little chapel consecrated to that saint and situated in an anfracture of the rock and placed just under the plateau where we were standing a few minutes ago.",
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"text": "To be noted also the presence of the Conus miles hidden in the madreporic anfractures of the intercotidal zone , and which remain dry for a few hours during the low tide .",
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