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long mark

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noun

  1. another name for macron

"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

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The palatial store which they erected on this spot will long mark the climacteric point in mercantile architecture.

From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

“Don’t you see that long mark, lighter in color, which runs down the side of that mountain over there, a mile or two away, and up above us?”

From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Emerson Hough

And with his heel he made a long mark in the turf, pointing straight toward the sound.

From The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol by Lewis E. Theiss

“Dust, dust everywhere,” said ’Phemie, making a long mark in it with her finger on the dresser.

From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe

He made a long mark with a pen over the manuscript of the king, took a new sheet of paper, and commenced to write the first lines.

From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

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