markedness

Updated: May 17, 2025

Still you might see him any day at noon at the Congress, or at the Athletic Club, or at one of the restaurants known for its savoury food, busy with one of the richer luncheon dishes and two cups of thick creamy coffee. Though the entire hotel was watching her Hannah was actually unconscious of Clint Darrow's attentions, or their markedness, until her son-in-law Ed teased her about him one day.

Edna Ferber - Gigolo

There a grey board fence took up the boundary and ran on, with a less definite markedness to the eye, until it skirted a rise far down the field and went on over the rise to lands unknown, at least to Lydia. "Farvie, come!" she cried. She pulled him down the crumbling steps to the soft sward and looked about her with a little murmured note of happy expectation.

Alice Brown - The Prisoner