Lapidary style

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Lapidary style is prose that is appropriate for memorials, mausoleums, stelae, and other commemorations in which words are "etched in stone"; it is concise, pithy, elegant, and sententious. The meaning extends to text in that style which is printed on paper rather than carved into monuments.

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