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[kahn-FAB-yah-layt'] 
1. to have an informal, easy conversation; chat: "He was a brilliant educator who always made time to confabulate with students."
2. (as in psychology) to fill in gaps in memory with fabricated accounts of events that one believes are true
noun forms: confabulation, confabulator
adjective form: confabulatory
Origin:
Approximately 1610; from Latin, 'confabulari': to talk together ('com-': together + 'fabulari': to talk, from 'fabula': conversation). In action:
"'Kiss' is one-tenth memory and nine-tenths confabulation. I certainly don't recall how the couple were dressed, or what they looked like, or the positions of their bodies as they embraced. Was my description of their clinch even physically possible? Could she bend the way I had her bending and still have her entire body against his? And even if that were possible, could she seem, in that position, to be stretching? I wasn't at all sure while I was writing the poem, and I'm still not sure it can be done. I moved the locale from the Enoteca del Fornaio--a wine and espresso bar in the center of the plaza--to a little coffee shop that hangs out over the Pacific Coast Highway, so that while they kissed the ocean could be in full view. For the first several drafts I had the name of the plaza wrong. The two boats with their sails that 'triangulate heaven' I stole from an earlier, abandoned poem of my own."
Steve Kowit. "Stolen Kisses," Literary Review (Fall 2000).
"I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau
If birds confabulate or no."
William Cowper (1731-1800). "Pairing Time Anticipated."
"'This confabulation of things is very in sync with the modern moment,' says Scott. His words are borne out by the cross-discipline launch plans for 'It's a Project': an exhibit at the Berlin Museum of Modern art, a show at Jeffrey Deitch's New York gallery, something at Colette in Paris, followed by something later at the Palais de Tokyo.
In other words, if couture represents the past of fashion, Chicks may well be part of its future. They are a niche taste, much like the haute art, with an outsize impact. While couture filters down, they filter up, and together the two shape that enormous place in the centre where the stuff we all actu- ally wear exists. And that is, ultimately, the reason why we of the middle market - we who would wear neither couture nor the kooky homemade stuff of Chicks on Speed - should care about them both. What they do affects us all, whether we recognise it or not."
Vanessa Friedman. "Far from perfect - by design," [Chicks on Speed are the anti-couture end of the style spectrum.] Financial Times (January 23, 2004).
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