lineaments
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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.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 11, 2023
The characters have been flecked with a few human lineaments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
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.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2021
When Victorian England was up in arms over Charles Darwin’s newly published “On the Origin of Species,” the wife of the bishop of Worcester, having taken in the theory’s lineaments, was properly mortified.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2016
As Mr. Gitney and Bono descended, I could see in the lineaments of their faces that the ride of hours had not been passed in idleness, but rather marked by contest of will.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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