eleven lines
Americanplural noun
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This is not now done with treble and bass clefs, which are only used with respectively the top and bottom five lines of the Great Stave of eleven lines.
From How to Write Music Musical Orthography by Clement A. Harris
These menhirs are arranged in eleven lines, forming regular alleys.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
In eleven lines the text of the MS. is superior to that of the fragment: Fragments.Manuscript.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
About half a mile to the north-west of the village is the Menec system, which consists of eleven lines, numbers 874 menhirs, and extends a distance of 3376 ft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
Flowers.—White; in short terminal racemes; diœcious; three to eleven lines across.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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