motif
Example Sentences
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The open-air shed in which Mother and Child lie is a common motif in Italian painting by this date.
The uprising is a motif in many of his works.
Bee motifs - stickers, balloons, even pavement art - are all over the suburb, in remembrance of Matilda, the terror attack's youngest victim.
From BBC
To open it up to the street, the architects chose the motif of “frames, apertures and doorways.”
"The ability to divide space evenly, reflected in these floral motifs, likely had practical roots in daily life, such as sharing harvests or allocating communal fields," Garfinkel explains.
From Science Daily
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