Change Thackeray's spirited devil into a dancing skeleton with an answering grin, and you have a picture that would fit into a medieval, or Holbeinian, Dance of Death.
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Holbeinian
Synonyms for "holbeinian"
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His letters to Anne translate social codes of French diplomacy, Holbeinian portraiture, and Erasmian epistolary friendship into performances of personal desire.
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Mercator replaced Ziegler's stiff, artificial rivers and lakes with fluid, Holbeinian waters, while the Bavarian's sea - so tormented and heavily worked that it always threatened to inundate the land -- was substituted by patches of placid hatching cruised by ships and improbable fish.
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a Holbeinian circuit
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