distinctive
/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/ noun C2- A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
- A distinctive accent.
- A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
Plural distinctives
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The Greek e with the peculiar top flourish is distinctive.
And then, of course, there is the bell—which is the most distinctive feature of the case.
The sobriquet of La Carconte had been bestowed on Madeleine Radelle from the fact that she had been born in a village, so called, situated between Salon and Lambesc; and as a custom existed among the inhabitants of that part of France where Caderousse lived of styling every person by some particular and distinctive appellation, her husband had bestowed on her the name of La Carconte in place of her sweet and euphonious name of Madeleine, which, in all probability, his rude guttural language would not have enabled him to pronounce.
But a Times leader is entirely distinctive, and these words could have been taken from nothing else.
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