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noun, plural still lifes.a representation chiefly of inanimate objects, as a painting of a bowl of fruit. the category of subject matter in which inanimate objects are represented, as in painting or photography. Origin of still lifeFirst recorded in 1635–45 OTHER WORDS FROM still lifestill-life, adjectiveWords nearby still lifestill frame, still hunt, stillicide, stilliform, still layer, still life, stillness, still pack, stillroom, Still's disease, still small voice Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for still lifeThe next minute they are frozen in an eerie, extended tableau vivant——a still-life that's not actually still. ‘A Field in England’ Is a Psychedelic Cinematic Trip|Andrew Romano|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST The photographs displayed on Flickr become an endless exercise in projection—a still-life ChatRoulette. The Art of Silence|Casey Schwartz|May 6, 2010|DAILY BEAST So too, the photographs displayed on Flickr become an endless exercise in projection—a still-life ChatRoulette. The Art of Silence|Casey Schwartz|May 6, 2010|DAILY BEAST In the still-life of a man of letters there was no obvious reason for a change. Table-Talk|William Hazlitt
Herman, and a brother, Pieter, were painters of still-life subjects at Leyden. A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various The projector carries two lenses, one for animation, and the other for still-life lantern slide work. Practical Cinematography and Its Applications|Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot Czanne has painted landscapes, rustic scenes and still-life pictures. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)|Camille Mauclair However, I have already seen virile works of yours—the portrait of your grandmother and the still-life. The Letters of a Post-Impressionist|Vincent Van Gogh
British Dictionary definitions for still life
noun plural still lifes- a painting or drawing of inanimate objects, such as fruit, flowers, etc
- (as modifier)a still-life painting
the genre of such paintings Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |