1. contour - Noun
2. contour - Verb
The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.
The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.
Source: Webster's dictionaryContour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval. Daniel Levitin
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. Eugène Delacroix
Believe in the holy contour of life. Jack Kerouac
I turned around and saw the crease on the bed where Camilla had been seated, the sensuous contour where her thighs and hips had sunk beneath the softness of the blue chenille bedspread. then I forgot Sammy, and wild with longing I threw myself upon my knees before the spot and kissed it reverently. John Fante
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. Gianfranco Ferre
The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored. Paul J. H. Schoemaker