'illustrious lineage' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase used to refer to a family, group, or institution that has a long and respected history. For example: "The Smith family has an illustrious lineage, tracing its roots back hundreds of years."
Nonetheless, he is cowed by his ostensibly illustrious lineage, which he refers to only as "It".
Described by one account as "dense and fuzzy," the size and color of "a red chickpea," it has boasted an illustrious lineage of owners, including Charlemagne.
As unlikely as it sounds, it is a line of thinking that has an illustrious lineage, originating with John von Neumann, the father of the modern computer.
During his 2000 campaign, George W Bush dismissed the notion that his illustrious lineage had helped: "I inherited half of [my father's] friends and all of his enemies".
Because she is the scion of a gilded dynasty, Ivanka's illustrious lineage may hold a certain appeal for many Chinese, but how she lives clashes considerably with the image that she projects as the winning prototype of the new, self-possessed woman.
But there is a long and illustrious lineage of clever-clogs club music, and in fact it could reasonably be argued that the history of dance music, from Motown and Philly to Chic, Jam & Lewis and beyond to today's Timbaland and Neptunes, is really the story of brainiac behind-scenes (male) technicians contriving illusorily intuitive melodies and rhythms for women to sing and dance to.
An Old Etonian with an illustrious family lineage in Conservative MPs, he would have had little difficulty in making his way in the Tory party.
Taught by his father Haafiz Ali Khan, Amjad Ali Khan was born to the illustrious Bangash lineage rooted in the Senia Bangash school of music.
No more is his illustrious line.
Noble rank did not represent "recognition of illustrious ancestry".
To be sure, modernism had its illustrious intellectual ancestry.
