limner

[ lim-ner ]

noun

1. a person who paints or draws.
2. an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.
3. a person who describes or depicts in words:

   an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.

4. an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of limner¹

1350–1400; Middle English lymnour, lymynour; limn, -or ², -er ¹

Example Sentences

"Do you know, I can never get over the idea that 'limner' is something immoral—indecent," said Val.

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"In truth is it," said that good and learned Italian father who had brought the limner from Pisa.

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Such a story of details is the filling up of a scant outline with the colors of an unfaithful limner.

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"That is Wat the limner," quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.

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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.

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