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Painterly

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characteristic of a painter or paintings.

    "She always shows and never tells. For some poets, such a concentration on the concrete may imply a loosening of language and of perception, or an immersion into raw emotion. Instead, Becker clothes the everyday in a spare, painterly clarity of perception."

  2. 2
    Having clear brush-strokes.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having qualities unique to the art of painting wordnet

Etymology

From painter + -ly.

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