Entry: limned (v.)
In context: "Her silhouette is cleanly limned against the screen, sitting cross-legged in its insectile microphonic headset, smoking."
Definition: †Illuminated (obs.); painted, depicted, portrayed.
Other:Pretty.
SNOOT score: 3
Page:183
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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