motif
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- n a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
- n a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
- n a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
- Tinged gold by turmeric and blue by pau (wild indigo), it stretches across the surreal spirit masks of the Baining people of New Britain, swirls with the starfish motif.
- He dropped the theme-hotel motif and made the hallways low and intimate.
- This is the great search motif of the poem, the quest for an ultimate good.