Limning

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A depiction.

    "In the limnings, or miniatures, painted by the court artist Lavina Teerlinc she resembles her lovely grandmother, the King's late younger sister, Mary Tudor, the French Queen."

  2. 2
    a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of limn form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"In the limnings, or miniatures, painted by the court artist Lavina Teerlinc she resembles her lovely grandmother, the King's late younger sister, Mary Tudor, the French Queen."

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