paintery
paintery noun: a place where paintings are done.
Noun
paintery (plural painteries)
- 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
- The blazing sun of July 24th was beating down on the wrecked plant, when a hole was noticed in the roof of the top story paintery in the Statler wagon factory.1973, Coralville, 1873-1973: Lest We Forget, page 13
- 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
- He was an unfeigned lover of the Muses (or some of them : not musick or paintery), and writ much upon poesy, whether antient or modern, heroick, lyrick, or symbolicall.1974, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Maurice Bowra: a celebration, page 42
Adjective
paintery (comparative more paintery, superlative most paintery)
- With the appearance of having been painted.
- How paintery would you like the image?
- Resembling or characteristic of a painter; artistic.
- He has a paintery brain.
Examples of paintery in a sentence
- I saw crazy quilts of the most brilliant colors of silks, so arranged to look like some great paintery.1988, Theodore Pease Russell, James F. Keefe, Lynn Morrow, A Connecticut Yankee in the frontier Ozarks, page 298:
- Such paintery will not Constitute a member of this Corporiety.1995, David G. Miller, The Word Made Flesh Made Word, →ISBN:
- How glorious then art thou, when all their glory Is but a Paintery to thy bright story.2003, Edward Taylor (Daniel Patterson), Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations, →ISBN:
Forms of paintery
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | painteries |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more paintery |
| superlative | most paintery |
Origin of paintery
From paint + -ery.
From painter + -y.
Questions about paintery
- What does paintery mean?
- Paintery means a place where paintings are done.
- How do you use paintery in a sentence?
- I saw crazy quilts of the most brilliant colors of silks, so arranged to look like some great paintery.
- What part of speech is paintery?
- Paintery can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of paintery?
- The plural of paintery is painteries.
Words near paintery in the dictionary
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