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[ adjective ] marked with crossing lines
Synonyms Used in print (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)Looking_around slowly , he saw a marble fireplace , a desk , a low bookcase of mahogany with criss-crossed brass wire instead of glass panes in the doors . The titles he could read easily through the criss-crossed wires : works on theology , astral physics , history , biology , political_science . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)The next time we saw him , he was a changed person ; he had aged thirty years , and his face , the color of tallow , was crisscrossed with wrinkles , as though it had been wrapped in chicken wire . Related terms |
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