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emblematic emblematical adjective 1. symbolic, significant, figurative, allegorical Dogs are emblematic of faithfulness. 2. characteristic, representative, typical, symptomatic This comment is emblematic of his no-nonsense approach to life. Translations emblematic [ˌɛmbləˈmætɪk] adj (= symbolic) [object, picture, figure] → emblématique to be emblematic of sth → être un symbole de qch (= representative, typical) to be emblematic of sth → être emblématique de qch emblematic adj → emblematisch (of für) emblematic [ˌɛmbləˈmætɪk] adj → emblematico/a emblematic [ˌɛmbləˈmætɪk] adj → emblematico/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the array of funerals, too -- whether for the apparel of the dead body, or to typify, by manifold emblematic devices of sable cloth and snowy lawn, the sorrow of the survivors -- there was a frequent and characteristic demand for such labour as Hester Prynne could supply. Concerts and plays swept past them, money had been spent and renewed, reputations won and lost, and the city herself, emblematic of their lives, rose and fell in a continual flux, while her shallows washed more widely against the hills of Surrey and over the fields of Hertfordshire. This instrument, however, might perhaps have been emblematic of his double functions. |
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