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vanitases

vanitases is the plural of vanitas.

Meaning of vanitas

Noun

vanitas (plural vanitases)

  1. (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.
    • In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.2009 March 6, Holland Cotter, “Change and Permanence, Captured by Cameras”, in New York Times

Questions about vanitases

What is vanitases the plural of?
Vanitases is the plural of vanitas.

Words near vanitases in the dictionary

  1. vanisht
  2. Vanist
  3. Vanists
  4. Vanita
  5. vanitas
  6. vanitases
  7. vanities
  8. vanitiolide
  9. vanitize
  10. vanitized
  11. vanitizes

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