scanning line
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of scanning line
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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In truth, his sense of prosaic excellence affected his verse rather than his prose, which is not only fervid, richly figured, poetic, as we say, but vitiated, all unconsciously, by many a scanning line.
From Appreciations, with an Essay on Style by Pater, Walter
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