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Definition of Imbrications
1. imbrication [n] - See also: imbrication
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbrications
Literary usage of Imbrications
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Fig. 4.—Wool Fibres. Australian merino viewed in length. Surface imbrications—the
structural cause of true felling properties. Fig. 5.—Flax Stem. ..."
2. The Prevention of Dental Caries and Oral Sepsis by Henry Percy Pickerill (1919)
"imbrications IN OUTLINE. Note the relationship of the stride in the enamel to
the imbrications (low power, reflected light). ..."
3. Theory and Analysis of Ornament Applied to the Work of Elementary and by François Louis Schauermann (1892)
"imbrications. 173. This ornamentation, which we find everywhere, is particularly
realized by the super- Fig. 254. Fig. 255. Fig. 256. Fig. ..."
4. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"... ware— Later Boeotian vases—Melian amphorae—Corinth and its pottery— "
Proto-Corinthian " vases—Vases with imbrications and floral decoration— Incised ..."
5. History of Ancient Pottery, Greek, Etrusean, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"... Proto-Corinthian " vases—Vases with imbrications and floral decoration— Incised
lines and ground-ornaments—Introduction of figure- subjects—Chalcidian ..."
6. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1883)
"With this power I was enabled readily to measure all the various specimens, and
also to distinguish the imbrications with comparative facility. ..."
7. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1872)
"As we trace the hair upwards, by moving the stage of the microscope, by and by
it swells and rapidly increases in thickness ; the imbrications are scarcely ..."
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