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limners

limners is the plural of limner.

Meaning of limner

Noun

limner (plural limners)

  1. Someone who limns or portrays.
    • Whether the skies be bright or cloudy,—whether the earth be clothed with flowers, or deformed with tempests,—the art of the limner has surrounded you with ‘a new heaven and a new earth;’ and you may bask in suns that never set, while the heavens are dark to other eyes,—and luxuriate amid landscapes...1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 276

Questions about limners

What is limners the plural of?
Limners is the plural of limner.

Words near limners in the dictionary

  1. limned
  2. limnemic
  3. limnephilid
  4. limnephilids
  5. limner
  6. limners
  7. limnes
  8. limnest
  9. limneth
  10. limnetic
  11. limnetic zone

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