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sun painting

sun painting noun: a photograph.

Noun

sun painting (countable and uncountable, plural sun paintings)

  1. (countable, figuratively, historical) A photograph.
    • Right at the beginning of the history of photography in the 1840s, before artists reacted violently against the threat posed by the new so-called sun paintings, a most extraordinary thing happened.1971, Christopher Neve, “Serendipity And A Mass Portrait”, in Country Life, volume 150, page 104
    Synonyms:
    sun picture
  2. (figuratively, historical, uncountable) Photography.

Synonyms of sun painting

Forms of sun painting

pluralsun paintings

Questions about sun painting

What does sun painting mean?
Sun painting means a photograph.
What part of speech is sun painting?
Sun painting is a noun.
What is the plural of sun painting?
The plural of sun painting is sun paintings.

Words near sun painting in the dictionary

  1. sun opal
  2. sun opals
  3. sun orchid
  4. sun outage
  5. sun outages
  6. sun painting
  7. sun paintings
  8. sun pan
  9. sun pans
  10. sun parlor
  11. sun parlors

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