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Description

noun

A statement that represents something in words. Synonym: verbal description.

The act of describing something.

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... we should do well; for even if our description as deserters was sent out from Portsmouth, we should be considered as travelling tinkers and there would be ...

— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat

... above creeds and forms. There are, of course, Japanese scholars willing to aid researches of foreign scholars in religion or in folk-lore; but these specialists do not undertake to gratify idle curiosity of the 'globe-trotting' description. I may also say that the foreigner desirous to learn the religious ideas or superstitions of the common people must obtain them from the people themselves—not ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... strange heifer round the Three Star that answers that description." Sam winked at Molly, who was flushing under the inspection of Miranda Bailey, maiden sister of the neighbor owner of the Double-Dumbbell Ranch. He fancied the missing milker an excuse if not an actual invention to furnish ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... in; it was a village church of the simplest description, very small, with plain wooden benches and confessionals, and a high altar with inexpensive decorations, in nowise remarkable. But hardly was Madelon inside the door, when she stood suddenly motionless, transfixed by a horrible ...

— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter

... Harcourt, has favored me with many interesting particulars which I could not have learned except from a member of his own family. Her description of his way of living and of working will be best given in her ...

— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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