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  • noun Plural form of linament.

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Examples

  • A complexion like the blossom of an apple and yet a form that had the beauty of linaments which Blake called the highest beauty because it is changeless from youth to age, and a stature so great she seemed to have walked down from Olympus.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A complexion like the blossom of an apple and yet a form that had the beauty of linaments which Blake called the highest beauty because it is changeless from youth to age, and a stature so great she seemed to have walked down from Olympus.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A complexion like the blossom of an apple and yet a form that had the beauty of linaments which Blake called the highest beauty because it is changeless from youth to age, and a stature so great she seemed to have walked down from Olympus.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A complexion like the blossom of an apple and yet a form that had the beauty of linaments which Blake called the highest beauty because it is changeless from youth to age, and a stature so great she seemed to have walked down from Olympus.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A complexion like the blossom of an apple and yet a form that had the beauty of linaments which Blake called the highest beauty because it is changeless from youth to age, and a stature so great she seemed to have walked down from Olympus.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A complexion like the blossom of an apple and yet a form that had the beauty of linaments which Blake called the highest beauty because it is changeless from youth to age, and a stature so great she seemed to have walked down from Olympus.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Warren, reclining on fresh straw in the bottom of the cart, wondered in semi-consciousness at the sweetness of the air dashed in his face with the great gusts of rain, and at his own stupidity in not recognizing Winona; beneath the stain with which she had darkened her own exquisite complexion, he could now plainly trace the linaments that had so charmed him.

    Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902

  • In the sharply outlined, but well-formed linaments of this man lay brooding melancholy and passionate devotion; he looked up to her with the ecstatic burning eye of a martyr.

    Venus in Furs Leopold Sacher-Masoch 1865

  • She stretched forth her hands, yearning to give some relief; even as she did so, the scene faded from her view, and next she saw an older child, bearing still the linaments of her own.

    The Home Mission 1847

  • Topographic features such as abrupt bends in streams, unusual karst features, mapable surface linaments, and sharp dips in exposed surface rocks, can be clues for subsurface structure.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

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