painting Verb
(head)
Noun
( en noun)
(lb) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
(lb) The action of applying paint to a surface.
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(lb) The same activity as an art form.
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Synonyms
The same activity as an art form
* third art
Derived terms
* oil painting
Related terms
* painter
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amate English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) papel .
Noun
( en noun)
Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) amater, amatir.
Verb
( amat)
(label) To dishearten, dismay.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
- The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.
* , I.i:
- Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate , / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?
* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xii:
- Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.
* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:
- For the last, he will be much amazed, he will be much amated .
* c.1815 , (John Keats), "To Chatterton":
- Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate .
Etymology 3
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Verb
( amat)
(obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
- (Spenser)
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