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Artistic Sprinkling Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "SEME" which means:
- noun
- • Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.
- • A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- • A suture.
- • A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- • The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- • A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
- • A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- • A line of junction; a joint.
- • (japanese fiction) an active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top. verb
- • To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
- • To befit; to beseem. adjective
- • Sprinkled, sown, strewn: said of a field or charge when strewn with small (identical) charges.
An example sentence would be:
- • "He was the seme in that relationship."
- • "The seme took the lead in their dance routine."
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