Motif

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In art and iconography, a motif ( ) is an element of an image. Motifs can occur both in figurative and narrative art, and in ornament and geometric art. A motif may be repeated in a pattern or design, often many times, or may just occur once in a work.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Motif (visual arts)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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