单词 | miniaturist |
释义 | miniaturistn. 1. A painter of miniature pictures or portraits. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > miniature > painter miniaturist1848 1848 W. M. Thackeray Our Street 14 A couple of artists; young Pinkney the miniaturist, and George Rumbold the historical-painter. 1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Nov. 344/1 The old lady would..take out a little oval portrait to show us. This was..just such a work of art as miniaturists do to maternal order. 1937 H. K. Hennig (title) William Harrison Scarborough, portraitist and miniaturist. 1958 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Apr. 61 New information on this important miniaturist and engraver. 1973 A. Thwaite Inscriptions 43 Knickers Fisher has been at work again, Using a compass point on the closet door, But he's a miniaturist whose main concern Is altogether different from the team Exhibiting on the wall by the railway line. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities iii. 25 The Genevan miniaturist whose palsy forces him to paint by holding a brush in his rotted teeth. 2. An illuminator of manuscripts. Cf. miniator n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writer > manuscript illuminator > [noun] luminer1330 limner1389 vermilion-writerc1470 alluminor?1533 illuminera1661 illuminator1699 illuminist1816 illuminatist1845 miniaturist1851 miniator1865 1851 E. J. Millington tr. A. N. Didron Christian Iconogr. I. 260 It is possible..that the deficiency is owing to an error of the miniaturist. 1892 J. H. Middleton Illumin. MSS 255 When the scribe, the rubricator, the illuminator and the miniaturist..had completed the manuscript it was ready for the binder. 1933 Speculum 8 247 Nothing has so far been discovered to identify Baldwin with the miniaturist of this manuscript. 1953 (title) An illuminated manuscript of La Somme le Roy, attributed to the Parisian miniaturist Honoré. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities vi. 43 The Gwalas raised their..beasts on a diet exclusively of mango leaves to intensify the yellow pigment so cherished by Indian illuminators and Islamic miniaturists. 3. A maker of or enthusiast for small-scale models; spec. a maker or collector of doll's houses and their furniture. ΚΠ 1943 Hobbies Nov. 11/2 (caption) Miniaturists active... There will be a regular, annual section in the show devoted to miniature objects. 1979 Miniatures Catal. (ed. 7) 15 (caption) Miniaturist Harleen Alexander..built this lucite baby grand piano. 1987 Arizona Republic (Electronic ed.) 28 Jan. When miniaturist Betty Deiser fashions her tiny replica of the famous Hubbell's Trading Post,..she knows that it will be an authentic reproduction. 2000 Evening Post (Bristol) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 7 The Three Towns Miniaturists group meets to talk about dolls houses and miniatures on the second Thursday of the month. 4. A composer of short pieces of music; (occasionally) a writer of short stories. Cf. miniature n. 3c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music fuguist1789 symphonist1789 melodist1826 threnodist1827 instrumentalist1838 melophonist1847 polyphonist1864 musical dramatist1866 operettist1867 tone poet1874 orchestrator1875 French Impressionist1876 monodist1888 romantic1892 neoclassicist1899 orchestralist1899 variationist1900 mensuralist1901 tone-painter1903 impressionist1908 pre-Romantic1918 phrase-maker1924 polytonalist1925 atonalist1929 dodecaphonist1953 serialist1954 twelve-toner1955 miniaturist1962 minimalist1969 tonalist1982 1962 Listener 15 Mar. 489/1 Schumann was by nature a lyrical miniaturist. 1981 N.Y. Times 4 Sept. c22 Grieg in real life was one of music's most important miniaturists. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 Apr. vii. 1/3 Ms. Tolstaya is a miniaturist whose stories lack the political and moral resonance of the most formidable antirealists. 1996 Amer. Rec. Guide (Electronic ed.) 19 Sept. Chopin may be a miniaturist, but he is also a true genius at evoking a palpable mood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848 |
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