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confabulation
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synonyms: colloquy, parley, collocution, interlocution, natter, blether ???
tags: [dated] [rare]
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Definition:conversation; talk; chatter;
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Uses:
she remembered their secret confabulations about the invalid,
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so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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To much confabulation succeeded a sound of scrubbing and setting to rights;
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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As soon as the two were alone—“ What,” said Prince Florizel, “is the use of this confabulation, Geraldine? I see you are flurried, whereas my mind is very tranquilly made up. I will see the end of this.”
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Suicide Club
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not all Mr Racksole's American energy and ingenuity would have availed for a confabulation with the owner of the Grand Babylon Hôtel that night.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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