Paintery
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A place where paintings are done.
"Now the lie of these involved waters becomes plain -- you can see the parklike Diurgården island to the east with its marvellous open-air Skansen museum of all the old village architectures of the country, with its wild riding woods and its leisurely villa-palaces built for an ampler age, and also what must be the most spacious studio a private painter has ever attained, the enormous royal paintery at Waldermarsudde of fin-de-siecle Prince Eugen, friend of Zorn and devotee on a truly royal scale of his art."
- 2 The act, process, or result of painting.
"Domenichino's Jerome, surpasses in worth all the rest, and it is here that the ambitious artist loves to spend his day in improving his taste, and in increasing his admiration of these chefs d'ceuvre of the greatest paintery, since the restoration !"
- 1 With the appearance of having been painted. informal
"How paintery would you like the image?"
- 2 Resembling or characteristic of a painter; artistic. informal
"He has a paintery brain."
Example
More examples"Now the lie of these involved waters becomes plain -- you can see the parklike Diurgården island to the east with its marvellous open-air Skansen museum of all the old village architectures of the country, with its wild riding woods and its leisurely villa-palaces built for an ampler age, and also what must be the most spacious studio a private painter has ever attained, the enormous royal paintery at Waldermarsudde of fin-de-siecle Prince Eugen, friend of Zorn and devotee on a truly royal scale of his art."
Etymology
From paint + -ery.
From painter + -y.
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