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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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"Limning" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'That is my father, Sir Robert, in profile,' and a vulgar face in profile is always seen at its vulgarest; and the nex-retrousse, the coarse mouth, the double chin, are most forcibly exhibited in this limning by Wright; who did not, like Reynolds, or like Lawrence, cast a nuance of gentility over every subject of his pencil. Horace—can we not hear him in imagination?—is telling his friends how Sir Robert ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton

... Browne, a printseller, who taught drawing, and practised it with success. He published in 1669, "Ars Pictoria, or an Academy treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching."] ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... often splendid eloquence. The direct opposite of this style is seen in the Australian novel. The author never openly preaches. His best effects are obtained by quiet satire conveyed in the gradual limning of his characters, and by occasional incidents of which each is allowed to give its own lesson to the reader. The facts have all the advantage of a studiously calm ...
— Australian Writers • Desmond Byrne

... wholesomeness—a word of Lady Dunstane's regarding him,—and his handsome braced figure, were well painted. Emma forgave the: insistance on a certain bluntness of the nose, in consideration of the fond limning of his honest and expressive eyes, and the 'light on his temples,' which they had noticed together. She could not so easily forgive the realistic picture of the man: an exaggeration, she thought, of small foibles, that even if they existed, should not have been ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



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



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