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- noun Plural form of
lineament .
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Examples
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My own anecdotal evidence suggests that right across the secondary school system our children are being short-changed of the patrimony of their story, which is to say the lineaments of the whole story, for there can be no true history that refuses to span the arc, no coherence without chronology.
The Guardian World News Simon Schama 2010
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And the girl, looking up into the peaceful old "lineaments," smiled faintly, and knew there was healing in them.
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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And the girl, looking up into the peaceful old "lineaments," smiled faintly, and knew there was healing in them.
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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And the girl, looking up into the peaceful old "lineaments," smiled faintly, and knew there was healing in them.
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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They come at an affordable price rate and I really loved all its quality and lineaments.
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Recognising in those fear-filled, treacherous glances the lineaments of Judas, Leonardo enticed him to the cenaculo with a gift of silver.
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Built some 4,500 years ago as way-stations to the afterlife, they are the lineaments of gratified desire.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery.
Chapter 2 2010
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Built some 4,500 years ago as way-stations to the afterlife, they are the lineaments of gratified desire.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Grand genealogies and family lineaments fall like granite upon the final iamb,
The OLM Blog 2009
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