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im·bri·cate (mbr-kt) or im·bri·cat·ed (-ktd)
adj.
Having the edges overlapping in a regular arrangement like roof tiles or the scales of a fish.
imbri·cation n.
imbricate
[im′brikāt]
Etymology: L, imbrex, roofing tile
to build a surface with overlapping layers of material. Surgeons may imbricate with layers of tissue when closing a wound or other opening in a body part. imbrication, n.


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She is attempting to fragment paradigms and proliferate contradiction, even as she multiplies her own contradictory imbrications in the apparatuses of contradiction--this is what it means to live in the borderlands/la frontera.
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