Definition of "imbrication" []

• A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish (noun)
• Overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or correctional surgery (noun)
• A sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap. (noun)

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• "Disney products specifically have been singled out in the past for their imbrication in this oppressive system."
• "Of course, most of my reading time is spent in my wood-panelled library, smoking my Meerschaum pipe and contemplating the imbrication of hegemonic discourses."
• "Before I inhabited a wood-panelled library and smoked a Meerschaum and contemplated the imbrication of hegemonic discourses, I grew up in a gun shop literally; it was attached to the house."