old master

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noun
  1. an eminent artist of an earlier period, especially from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

  2. a work by such an artist.

Origin of old master

1
First recorded in 1945–50

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old master

noun
  1. one of the great European painters of the period 1500 to 1800

  2. a painting by one of these

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