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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2007-11-16 07:25 am
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imbricate

imbricate - adj., overlapping in a regular pattern, as in shingles, tiles, or scales.


I love the sound of this one. Ultimately from imbrex, the Latin name for the convex tile that covers the joints between roofing tiles, which seems to be somehow connected to imber, rain.

---L.
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