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In her study of nineteenth-century portraiture, historian Clara Vance argues that the draped fabric appearing in canvas after canvas was more than a mere ______ inherited from earlier studios; it served as a sophisticated visual language used to signal the sitter’s social status and moral character. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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