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Origin of waterglass painting

First recorded in 1860–65

Words nearby waterglass painting

water gap, water gas, water gate, water gauge, water glass, waterglass painting, water gum, water gun, water hammer, water-hammer pulse, water-harden

How to use waterglass painting in a sentence

There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.
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In “Sleigh Ride,” the narrator is painting a scene so perfect that it could be featured on an iconic Currier and Ives print.
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Was it your wife Helena in the Keane painting you commissioned?
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In one painting, framed as a split-panel comic between the two, Ramone simply asks Vicious, “Did you kill her?”
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It offers keen insights into Hitch's craft while painting an intimate and unsentimental picture of the man behind the camera.
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She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.
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This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
In 1884 she once more yielded to the attraction that Paris had for her, and there made a great advance in her painting.
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A girl of forty-two weeks showed the same excitement at the sight of a life-size painting of a cat as at that of a real cat.
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The prophets had long been painting the visionary dawn with pigments of that glorious sunset.
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