imbricate

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There are a few of note, including Arpita Singh, an Indian artist born a decade before partition, whose forceful, thickly daubed paintings of fleshy and contorted women imbricate mythic and everyday imagery.

From New York Times

Highly textured carpets and fabrics, most of them keeping to a warm, natural palette of browns, rusts, caramels, and creams, enrich the deftly imbricated compositions.

From Architectural Digest

The casque was, of course, normally of plate, but in some instances it was a strong leather cap covered with mail or imbricated plates.

From Project Gutenberg

Head small: base of the wings covered with conspicuous, lengthened, imbricate scales.

From Project Gutenberg

Palpi very short, curved, hardly projecting beyond the head, closely compressed on the tongue, entirely covered with close imbricate scales, the tip naked.

From Project Gutenberg