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Definition of Lineaments
1. lineament [n] - See also: lineament
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lineaments
Literary usage of Lineaments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions by William John Thoms (1858)
"... wherein if the eyes had feet they might he set in the stocks: all his lineaments
were ... lineaments ..."
2. Essays on Physiognomy by Johann Caspar Lavater, Thomas Holcroft (1878)
"... or when it exceeds a certain degree of flatness, no other feature or lineament
of the countenance can rectify it. XLV. lineaments OP THE CHEEKS. ..."
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