limner
Americannoun
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a person who paints or draws.
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an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.
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a person who describes or depicts in words.
an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.
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an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.
Etymology
Origin of limner
1350–1400; Middle English lymnour, lymynour; limn, -or 2, -er 1
Example Sentences
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So I’m looking at this portrait of so-and-so as a little girl and she is standing there with this total old-man face because the limner wasn’t any good.
From Los Angeles Times
New England folk art and furniture are more prominent than ever, with limner portraits, including at least three by the self-taught painter Ammi Philips being especially notable this year.
From New York Times
No limner's hand ever drew a more faithful picture than the one I have of her even now engraved on the tablet of my heart.
From Project Gutenberg
He called Cooper "a limner in little," and referred to him several times in his Diary.
From Project Gutenberg
To a certain extent photography, quoad art, is wrong and the limner is right.
From Project Gutenberg
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