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lineament
English
Etymology
From Middle French linéament, from Latin lineamentum, from linea (line).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l?.n??.m?nt/
Noun
lineament (plural lineaments)
- Any distinctive shape or line, etc.
- A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of the face of an individual.
- 1609, Thomas Dekker, The Guls Horn-Booke, London: J.M. Dent, 1905, p. 23, [2]
- […] onely remember, that so soone as thy eyelids be unglewd, thy first exercise must be (either sitting upright on thy pillow, or rarely loling at thy bodies whole length) to yawne, to stretch, and to gape wider then any oyster-wife : for thereby thou doest not onely send out the lively spirits (like vaunt-curers) to fortifie and make good the uttermost borders of the body ; but also (as a cunning painter) thy goodly lineaments are drawne out in their fairest proportion.
- 1791, William Blake, The French Revolution, Book I, 31-32, [3]
- […] a mask of iron on his face hid the lineaments
- Of ancient Kings, and the frown of the eternal lion was hid from the oppressed earth.
- 1923, James Stephens, Deirdre, London: Macmillan, Chapter VIII, p. 55, [4]
- But she could not wipe out the king's majesty with that sponge nor alter one lineament of the portrait she had taken ten years to limn.
- 1927, John Crowe Ransom, Dead Boy:
- A pig with a pasty face, so I had said,
- Squealing for cookies, kinned by poor pretense
- With a noble house. But the little man quite dead,
- I see the forbears' antique lineaments.
- 1609, Thomas Dekker, The Guls Horn-Booke, London: J.M. Dent, 1905, p. 23, [2]
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
References
- lineament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- alinement
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linament
English
Etymology
From Latin linamentum, from linum (“flax”).
Noun
linament (plural linaments)
- (surgery) Lint (fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth, used for dressing wounds), especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with liniment.
References
- linament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- inmantle, lamentin
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