Usually means: Concise, polished, elegant prose style.
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  1. lapidary style: Wordnik
  2. Lapidary style: Dictionary.com
  3. lapidary style: FreeDictionary.org
  4. Lapidary style: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Lapidary style)

noun:  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.


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