Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An upright frame for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A frame in the form of a tripod for supporting a blackboard, paper, or canvas in drawing and painting; also, a similar frame used as a rest for portfolios, large books, etc.
- noun A picture small enough to be placed on an easel for exhibition after completion.
- Eastward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
- noun a painting of moderate size such as is made while resting on an easel, as distinguished from a painting on a wall or ceiling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
upright frame , typically on threelegs , fordisplaying orsupporting something, such as anartist ’scanvas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We freely admit that we take inspiration in easel mode from the metaphor of the TV and agree that people need a web appliance but by the same token we are still a webbook and work like one in laptop mode.
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A lot of artists leave their creativity at the easel, which is not a good way to sell paintings.
May 2007 2007
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Los Angeles To conservator Sue Ann Chui at the Getty Museum, the 518-year-old wooden panel painting on her easel is a study in the subtle science of art.
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It converts from laptop mode, into what litl calls easel mode.
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On an easel was a large painting of a street scene in Mexico, with dark-haired women in flowing skirts, children playing, and flower vendors with their carts.
Semiprecious D. Anne Love 2006
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On her easel is the Amish girl being hit by the car.
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On the easel was a wild abstract in crude bright colours, bearing no visible relation at all to the scene in the harbour before them; it was unexpected, compared to the neat, anaemic little water-colours that nineteen out of twenty Trewissick harbour-painters produced.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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On the easel was a wild abstract in crude bright colours, bearing no visible relation at all to the scene in the harbour before them; it was unexpected, compared to the neat, anaemic little water-colours that nineteen out of twenty Trewissick harbour-painters produced.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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On the easel was a wild abstract in crude bright colours, bearing no visible relation at all to the scene in the harbour before them; it was unexpected, compared to the neat, anaemic little water-colours that nineteen out of twenty Trewissick harbour-painters produced.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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Behind the easel was a small wooden sideboard covered by a handmade afghan.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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