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linage

American  
[lahy-nij] / ˈlaɪ nɪdʒ /
Or lineage

noun

  1. the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.

  2. the amount charged, paid, or received per printed line, as of a magazine article or short story.

  3. Archaic. alignment.


linage British  
/ ˈlaɪnɪdʒ /

noun

  1. the number of lines in a piece of written or printed matter

  2. payment for written material calculated according to the number of lines

  3. a less common word for alignment

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of linage

First recorded in 1880–85; line 1 + -age


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Now that actor Joe Dempsie has returned to the game, it’s time to look at the mysterious linage of Gendry, the bastard of King Robert Baratheon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2017

The New York-based playwright Kristoffer Diaz knows this bleak linage well.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2015

Our deadline’s near, so off we go, Ignoring tweets and vertigo, Counting beats and storing linage, Melding Keats and major signage: Names and rhymes and scenes of winter, Parties, Magi—hit the printer!

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 14, 2009

Once the capital's leading paper, it began slipping behind the aggressive morning Post in both circulation and ad linage in the 1950s.

From Time Magazine Archive

The linage of Cerdicus was in that season so confounded and mingled, that euerie one as he grew in greatest power, stroue to be king and supreame gouernour.

From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

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