linage
Americannoun
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the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
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the amount charged, paid, or received per printed line, as of a magazine article or short story.
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Archaic. alignment.
noun
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the number of lines in a piece of written or printed matter
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payment for written material calculated according to the number of lines
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a less common word for alignment
Etymology
Origin of linage
Example Sentences
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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
Its advertising linage rose from 2,195,475 in the first quarter of 1936 to 2,605,578 in the same period this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Edward's great linage, by the mother's side, Five hundred years hath held the scepter up: Judge then, conspiratours, by this descent, Which is the true borne sovereign, this or that.
From King Edward III by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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