A salient feature of perjury (3)

I believe the answer is:

lie

'perjury' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'a salient feature' is the wordplay.
'feature' indicates a hidden word (I've seen 'featuring' mean this).
'LIE' is hidden in the letters of 'salient'.

'of' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for lie that I've seen before include "Stretch out" , "Recline - untruth" , "Tell porkies" , "Couch" , "Perversion of the truth" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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