delineator
a person or thing that delineates.
a tailor's pattern that can be adjusted for cutting garments of different sizes.
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How to use delineator in a sentence
As a delineator of men and manners, she is remarkable for shrewdness, subtle perception, and truthfulness that cannot be mistaken.
However great she was as a delineator of character, she is not an oracle as a moral teacher.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII | John LordEvery page reveals the literary artist, the keen observer, the trained delineator of human nature, its weal and its woe.'
Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) GeorgeHarvey was an exquisite delineator of the seaweeds of which he was so enthusiastic a student.
In him the South has found a masterly delineator of its interior life and its history.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
British Dictionary definitions for delineator
/ (dɪˈlɪnɪˌeɪtə) /
a tailor's pattern, adjustable for different sizes
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