单词 | pointillism |
释义 | poin·til·lism ![]() n. A postimpressionist school of painting exemplified by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th-century France, characterized by the application of paint in small dots and brush strokes. [French pointillisme, from pointiller, to paint small dots, stipple, from Old French *pointille, engraved with small dots, from point, point, from Latin pūnctum, from neuter past participle of pungere, to prick; see peuk- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] pointil·list adj. & n. poin′til·listic adj. |
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