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; see limn, -or 2, -er 1
Example Sentences
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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 ● Jan. 23, 2014
Most tireless limner of Lawrence was stocky, dark-mustached Eric Kennington, who did the firm-jawed bust Lawrence used as frontispiece for his Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and endless drawings of him and his Arab friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
He and Velasquez studied together and were born within a year of each other, but their characters as artists were utterly different; one was a grand chamberlain, the other a preacher and limner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here was their lesson in making it: the teen-age limner who, thanks to Rome and practical ambition, rose to become the second president of the Royal Academy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Visit it in his absence, and you may paint his portrait better than the limner who has placed his "breathing canvas" on the walls.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
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