This distinctive geometric motif, borrowed from the window frames in the post office, will be used throughout.

By expropriating the almanac's distinctive motifs, its lawyers charged, New York had effectively stolen its "valuable good will."

One distinctive motif recurs: the Migration Pattern of a parrot wing, outstretched in flight.

Cultural reference has been based on symbolic contrast and as a distinctive motif.

A further piece of ostrich eggshell, incised with a distinctive criss-cross motif, has also been found.

It also had a medallion attached, bearing a distinctive red motif and encased in a plastic coating that had been partially melted.

His distinctive motifs are rather idyllic, often including smaller figurines subsidiary to the main narrative.

Raft's coin-tossing established a distinctive motif used in numerous later gangster movies.

In architecture, a waterleaf is a distinctive sculptural motif used on the capitals of columns and pillars in European buildings during the late twelfth century.

The roundel is "supported" by the intrusion of large triangles into the field, three of which contain distinctive motifs.