Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who limns; an artist or delineator; more especially, one who paints portraits or miniatures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic, Archaic One who paints portraits.
- noun Archaic One who illuminates books.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
limns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a painter or drawer of portraits
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Examples
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Try this - in the production of an illustrated manuscript a limner was the one who delineated a space to be gilded or coloured.
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After 1741, each new member of the society paid a sum of "face money" if the official "limner," George Knapton, had not yet provided the society with a clever, allusive image of the Dilettante couched in some kind of fancy dress.
A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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THE EARLY PAINTERS: The "limner," or the man who could draw and color
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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I shall see you in time, and will carry you to the 'limner'.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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I asked the limner if I was still lopsided, if the right side of my face drooped more than the left.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I watched the limner, a small man with a long beard that he braided and tucked under his surcoat to keep out of the way.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The limner had made me appear beautiful, modest, prideful, with ardency in one eye.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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King Corvus sent a limner to capture a likeness of me.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I dreamed your—I dreamed the Starling received a likeness of me, the very same one the limner painted.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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King Corvus sent a limner to capture a likeness of me.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word limner
Limner is a nicer (shorter and sweeter) word for a painter of portraits and miniatures.
April 29, 2015