painteries

Noun

paintery (plural painteries)

1. A place where paintings are done.
   • Now the lie of these involved waters becomes plain -- you can see the parklike Diurgården island to the east with its marvellous open-air Skansen museum of all the old village architectures of the country, with its wild riding woods and its leisurely villa-palaces built for an ampler age, and also...1958, William Sansom, The Icicle and the Sun, page 67
2. The act, process, or result of painting.
   • Domenichino's Jerome, surpasses in worth all the rest, and it is here that the ambitious artist loves to spend his day in improving his taste, and in increasing his admiration of these chefs d'ceuvre of the greatest paintery, since the restoration !1855, Orville Horwitz, Brushwood, picked up on the continent

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