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• s  shaped like a sword blade

• Certainly it was convenient for Picasso to rejig the human face in terms of bladelike noses and scarification lines, a I'Africaine.
• The clarity and measure of the green architectural frame, with its slender columns and bladelike ribs, in which the theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas kneels in prayer, is like a .
• Originally a scene of green pine trees and blue sea, it became a brisk mosaic of slender, bladelike forms set with cunning ambiguity between figure and field, in a matrix of dark .

• ensiform
• sword-shaped
• swordlike