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paintures

paintures is the plural of painture.

Meaning of painture

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)

Questions about paintures

What is paintures the plural of?
Paintures is the plural of painture.

Words near paintures in the dictionary

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

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