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Limning

noun
1.
A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects.  Synonyms: delineation, depiction, line drawing.





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... sisters was the wife of Cooper, the well-known portrait-painter. Mrs. Cooper was the poet's godmother; she died when he was five years old, leaving to her sister, Mrs. Pope, a "grinding-stone and muller," and their mother's "picture in limning;" and to her nephew, the little Alexander, all her "books, pictures, and medals set in ...
— Alexander Pope - English Men of Letters Series • Leslie Stephen


Words linked to "Limning" :   line drawing, drawing, animalization


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