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单词 alluminor
释义

alluminorn.

Forms:

α. 1500s allumynour, 1600s–1800s alluminor.

β. 1600s–1700s alluminer.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French alluminour, alumineur.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman alluminour, alumenur and Middle French alumineur, alumyneur illuminator of manuscripts, miniaturist (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman, 1479 in continental Middle French; in Anglo-Norman also eluminour ), probably partly an alteration (with prefix substitution: see a- prefix5) of Old French, Middle French enlumineur , in same sense (1260; French enlumineur ; < enluminer enlumine v. + -eur -eur suffix), and partly (in Anglo-Norman) < alluminer , aluminer (13th cent. in sense ‘to illuminate (manuscripts)’; for other, later uses in French, see allumine v.) + -our , -ur -our suffix. Compare earlier limner n., luminer n. and later illuminator n. 5, illuminer n. 3.With the β. forms compare -er suffix2 3.
Obsolete.
An illuminator of manuscripts; a limner.
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society > communication > writing > writer > manuscript illuminator > [noun]
luminer1330
limner1389
vermilion-writerc1470
alluminor?1533
illuminera1661
illuminator1699
illuminist1816
illuminatist1845
miniaturist1851
miniator1865
?1533 tr. Act 1 Richard III c. ix, in Great Bk. Statutes sig. K.iii Any scriuener, allumynour [Fr. alluminour; 1484 Parliament Roll lympner], redar or prynter of suche bookes.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. C4v/1 Alluminor..is vsed for one that by his trade coloureth or painteth vpon paper or parchment.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enlumineur de livres, A burnisher of bookes; (we call one that coloureth, or painteth vpon, Paper, or Parchement, an Alluminer).
1706 Eng. Scholar Compl. 80/1 Alluminer, an Illightner, who paints on Paper or Parchment.
1854 E. Robinson Westm. Abbey II. xix. 183 Verily, your alluminor has painted these temptations as if he relished them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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