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lineament

noun as in contour

noun as in silhouette

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“A number of faults and lineaments have been mapped in the range, with no known earthquakes on any of them,” says Hubbard.

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He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament.

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The characters have been flecked with a few human lineaments.

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For the best science fiction and fantasy to use the supernatural to illuminate the lineaments of ordinary oppression, it has to know where those invisible lines are in the first place.

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After the kids are dropped at school, I take a circuitous route back home, to trace the lineaments of the past in the bricks and pavements of this familiar acre of London.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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