Sentence:  Then the Tulsi Store became a place of deep romance and endless delights, transformed from the austere emporium it was on other days, dark and silent, its shelves crammed with bolts of cloth that gave off acrid and sometimes unpleasant smells, its tables jumbled with cheap scissors and knives and spoons, towers of dusty blue-rimmed enamel plates <WSD>interleaved</WSD> with ragged grey paper, and boxes of hairpins, needles, pins and thread. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group.