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runelike

  • a word derived from rune.
    rune
    noun
    any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.

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The golden, runelike figures that elaborately encircle the Eternals as they don their warrior garb are poetry in motion.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

It seemed incredibly unlikely that Luna’s father was a supporter of the Dark Arts, and nobody else in the tent seemed to have recognized the triangular, runelike shape.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling