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Emblematic   /ˌɛmbləmˈætɪk/   Listen
Emblematic

adjective
1.
Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract.  Synonyms: emblematical, symbolic, symbolical.  "The spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish"
2.
Being or serving as an illustration of a type.  Synonyms: exemplary, typic.  "An action exemplary of his conduct"






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"Emblematic" Quotes from Famous Books



... sign that they might introduce the candidate. He appeared with that modest and simple air which always accompanies true merit. The president rose, and without saying a word, he pointed out to him with an afflicted air, the emblematic cup, the cup so exactly full. The doctor apprehended the meaning that there was no room for him in the academy; but taking courage, he thought to make them understand that an academician supernumerary ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XVII. No. 469. Saturday January 1, 1831 • Various

... moderately, and I might marry some single woman whom I could love. That is the life I look forward to. Perhaps that is why I prefer a daisy in the meadows to these splendid tulips, whose purple and gold and rubies and amethysts betoken a life of luxury, just as the daisy is emblematic of a sweet and patriarchal life,—the life of ...
— The Alkahest • Honore de Balzac

... same time the wretched rooms rose before him, denuded of the poetry of love which beautifies everything; he saw them dirty and faded, regarding them as emblematic of an inner life devoid of honor, idle and vicious. Are not our feelings written, as it were, on ...
— The Purse • Honore de Balzac

... inform me what are the emblematic meanings of the different precious stones, or of any of them? or in what work I shall find ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 • Various

... approaching season begin to appear. Every old woman in the market-place offers for sale a store of hard-boiled eggs, smeared over with some highly colored varnish, besides candy chickens, hares, etc., in abundance. All the various shop windows display pretty emblematic articles. Besides the sugar and chocolate eggs, there are eggs of soap and of glass; egg-shaped baskets and reticules; leather eggs, which really are ladies' companions, and filled with sewing implements; wooden eggs ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, April 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various


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