symblematic
adjEtymology Blend of symbolic + emblematic or of symptomatic + emblematic.
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Nonstandard Emblematic or characteristic.
- Sir, keep your plans; and if in secrecy they will work the end desired, if they will place the cross-bars of the Confederation among the symblematic emblems of independent nations, guard them, with all the wisdom of your suspecting nature, and treasure them, in the most sacred place of your ungrateful heart.1914, William Alfred Luby, J. Wilkes Booth; or, The national tragedy. An original tragedy, in five acts":
- standing at bar, wearing outfit symblematic of the Dutch; liquor bottle in foreground; identical to 2009-NLF-019-1212011, Gerald R. Ford presidential library, Ford Family Photos:
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- But it’s symblematic of deeper, year-long problems.2011 October 28, “No Defense for Colts' awful start”, in The Herald Bulletin: