lineament

Any distinctive shape or line, etc.

In consequence, many places never saw an engine or train of unaccustomed hue or lineaments, except on such special occasions as the movement of troops or lines being blocked.

East-trending lineaments, some as long as 400 miles, are clearly discernible on the aeromagnetic maps. These lineaments may be associated with large fractures in the earth's crust.

A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of a person’s face.

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.

[…] onely remember, that so soone as thy eyelids be unglewd, thy first exercise must be (either sitting upright on thy pillow, or rarely loling at thy bodies whole length) to yawne, to stretch, and to gape wider then any oyster-wife : for thereby thou doest not onely send out the lively spirits (like vaunt-curers) to fortifie and make good the uttermost borders of the body ; but also (as a cunning painter) thy goodly lineaments are drawne out in their fairest proportion.