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Webster 1913 Edition


Painterly

Paint′er-ly

(pānt′ẽr-ly̆)
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Adj.
Like a painter’s work.
[Obs.]
“A painterly glose of a visage.”
Sir P. Sidney.

Definition 2024


painterly

painterly

English

Adjective

painterly (comparative more painterly, superlative most painterly)

  1. Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
  2. (of a painting) Having clear brush-strokes.

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