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bench easel

bench easel noun: a bench with an upright board or easel attached at one end, allowing an artist to straddle the bench while working.

Noun

bench easel (plural bench easels)

  1. A bench with an upright board or easel attached at one end, allowing an artist to straddle the bench while working.
    • Canvases stood on two homemade bench-easels.1944, Emily Carr, “Studio”, in The House of All Sorts
    • Surprisingly this very tall man worked on a bench easel.2013, Shelli Alford, "Tornados in Liberace Workshop," Travelingartist.net, 2 April, 2013, http://www.thetravelingartist.net/2013/04/02/tornados-in-liberace-workshop/

Forms of bench easel

pluralbench easels

Questions about bench easel

What does bench easel mean?
Bench easel means a bench with an upright board or easel attached at one end, allowing an artist to straddle the bench while working.
What part of speech is bench easel?
Bench easel is a noun.
What is the plural of bench easel?
The plural of bench easel is bench easels.

Words near bench easel in the dictionary

  1. bench cheeks
  2. bench dog
  3. bench dogs
  4. bench drill
  5. bench drills
  6. bench easel
  7. bench easels
  8. bench grinder
  9. bench grinders
  10. bench hook
  11. bench hooks

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