seam
noun
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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And now—letting alone that pock-marks have seamed her grim face till she is as ugly as Alecto—she is a Precisian of the Precisians.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge