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painture

painture noun: the art of painting.

Noun

painture (countable and uncountable, plural paintures)

  1. (obsolete) The art of painting.
    • To the next realm she stretched her sway,
      For Painture I near adjoining lay1694, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew
  2. (countable, obsolete) A painting.
    • And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.1900, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (version in modern spelling)

Forms of painture

pluralpaintures

Origin of painture

Inherited from Middle English peynture, from Old French peinture, from Late Latin *pinctūra; by surface analysis, paint + -ure. See paint and compare picture.

Questions about painture

What does painture mean?
Painture means the art of painting.
What part of speech is painture?
Painture is a noun.
What is the plural of painture?
The plural of painture is paintures.

Words near painture in the dictionary

  1. paintshop
  2. paintshops
  3. paintstick
  4. paintsticks
  5. Paintsville
  6. painture
  7. paintures
  8. paintwork
  9. paintworks
  10. painty
  11. painy

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