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adj. - Using artistic forms and traditions to create effects.

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  • He is holding thunderbolts, conventionalised in a hand-like form.
  • Not, of course, run-of-the-mill bad writers which is to say, not incompetent, or banal, or trivial or merely conventionalised writers.
  • The principal designs for the Venetian lace of all periods were scrolls of flowers conventionalised in the Renaissance taste of the time.
  • In fact, as yesterday's novum are conventionalised by generations of reuse, I'd argue, they have become equivalently folkloric -- comfortably familiar as genre tropes.
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