Word to the Wise: Lineament

"Lineament" (LIN-ee-uh-munt) - from the Latin for "line" - is a distinguishing or characteristic feature.

Example (as used by Anita Brookner in Visitors): "If she saw herself, even in her memory, she did not see the brightness that had been hers as a wife; she saw the lined and ageing woman she had become, as if these lineaments had been waiting to emerge since her features had first been formed."

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