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limner
limn L0171200 (lĭm)tr.v. limned, limn·ing (lĭm′nĭng), limns 1. To describe or depict by painting or drawing.2. To suffuse or highlight with light or color; illuminate: "There was just enough juice left in Merrill's flashlight to limn the outlines: A round lobe here. Another lobe over there" (Hampton Sides).3. To describe or portray in words.
[Middle English limnen, to illuminate (a manuscript), probably alteration (influenced by limnour, illustrator) of luminen, from Old French luminer, from Latin lūmināre, to illuminate, adorn, from lūmen, lūmin-, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]
limn′er (lĭm′nər) n.limnerArchaic. a book illustrator or one who illuminates manuscripts.See also: BooksThesaurus| Noun | 1. |  limner - a painter or drawer of portraits portrait painter, portraitist, portrayerpainter - an artist who paints |
limner
limner (lĭm`nər), the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well into the 19th cent.limner
Synonyms for limnernoun a painter or drawer of portraitsSynonyms- portrait painter
- portraitist
- portrayer
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