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sandpainting

sandpainting noun: the art of shaping crushed, colored sands, minerals, and pigments on a flat surface to make a temporary or permanent picture.

Noun

sandpainting (countable and uncountable, plural sandpaintings)

  1. (uncountable) The art of shaping crushed, colored sands, minerals, and pigments on a flat surface to make a temporary or permanent picture.
    Synonyms:
    drypainting
  2. (countable) A picture of this kind.

Synonyms of sandpainting

Forms of sandpainting

pluralsandpaintings

Origin of sandpainting

From sand + painting.

Questions about sandpainting

What does sandpainting mean?
Sandpainting means the art of shaping crushed, colored sands, minerals, and pigments on a flat surface to make a temporary or permanent picture.
What part of speech is sandpainting?
Sandpainting is a noun.
What is the plural of sandpainting?
The plural of sandpainting is sandpaintings.

Words near sandpainting in the dictionary

  1. Sandows
  2. Sandoz
  3. Sandozes
  4. sandpack
  5. sandpacks
  6. sandpainting
  7. sandpaintings
  8. sandpaper
  9. sandpapered
  10. sandpapered nails
  11. sandpaperer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sandpainting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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