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wallpainting

wallpainting is the alternative form 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

Forms of wallpainting

pluralwallpaintings

Questions about wallpainting

What is wallpainting the alternative form of?
Wallpainting is the alternative form of wall-painting.

Words near wallpainting in the dictionary

  1. wallowings
  2. wallowish
  3. wallows
  4. wallowsome
  5. wallowy
  6. wallpainting
  7. wallpaintings
  8. wallpaper
  9. wallpaper group
  10. wallpaper groups
  11. wallpapered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wallpainting (page history and authors); wall-painting (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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