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wall-paintings

wall-paintings is the plural of wall-painting.

Meaning of wall-painting

Noun

wall-painting (plural wall-paintings)

  1. A work of art created directly on a wall, ceiling, etc.
    • Among investigations of ancient sites made by Japanese scholars in the Korean Peninsula during the past forty yeas, there are some which have attracted the attention of scholars of the world. One of these was the excavation of the Lo-lang sites of the Han dynasty centering about Heijōᵃ...1952, Suyeji Umehara, “The Newly Discovered Tombs with Wall Paintings of the Kao-kou-li Dynasty”, in Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, volume 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5
    1. a mural, fresco, graffito, marouflage

Questions about wall-paintings

What is wall-paintings the plural of?
Wall-paintings is the plural of wall-painting.

Words near wall-paintings in the dictionary

  1. wall-kisser
  2. wall-kissers
  3. wall-less
  4. wall-mounted
  5. wall-painting
  6. wall-paintings
  7. wall-paper
  8. wall-paperer
  9. wall-papers
  10. wall-pecker
  11. wall-peckers

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