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  • noun Plural form of pointillist.

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Examples

  • “Tannin management” seems to be such a benign term, at least on the surface, but creating precisely the right textural profile in a wine is now the Holy Grail, at least among the pointillists among us.

    Wine Person of the Decade - nominations open! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • New York The paintings of the pointillists may amaze us with their ability to render the visible world in pinpoint dots of color.

    Not the Seurat We Think We Know Francine Prose 2007

  • There are some landscapes that are reminiscent of Corot or of Anton Mauve; the _Woman with the broken neck_ is related to Manet; the portrait of _Sisley_ invents pointillism fifteen years before the pointillists; _La Pensée_, this masterpiece, evokes

    The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

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