单词 | manners-painting |
释义 | † manners-paintingadj. Obsolete. Of a writer, a work of literature, etc.: concerned with or skilled in the depiction of contemporary manners, habits, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [adjective] > depicting manners manners-painting1744 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [adjective] > depicting contemporary manners manners-painting1744 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 119 Chaucer, whose native Manners-painting Verse [etc.]. 1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 20 The Manners-painting Hand of Hogarth. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 112 I taught thy manners-painting strains, The loves, the ways of simple swains. 1814 A. M. Grant Eighteen Hundred & Thirteen ii. 91 Thy own Maria's manners-painting page, That bids thy portrait every heart engage,..Shall rouse thy genius from its leaden sleep. 1838 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 257/1 This picturesque and manners-painting volume. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1744 |
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