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paintery

noun

Etymology

From paint + -ery.

  1. derived from pingō
  2. derived from peintier
  3. inherited from peynten
  4. suffixed as paintery — “paint + ery”

Definitions

  1. A place where paintings are done.

    • The blazing sun of July 24th was beating down on the wrecked plant, when a hole was noticed in the roof of the top story paintery in the Statler wagon factory.

  2. The act, process, or result of painting.

    • He was an unfeigned lover of the Muses (or some of them : not musick or paintery), and writ much upon poesy, whether antient or modern, heroick, lyrick, or symbolicall.
    • I saw crazy quilts of the most brilliant colors of silks, so arranged to look like some great paintery.

  3. With the appearance of having been painted.

    • How paintery would you like the image?
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Resembling or characteristic of a painter

      Resembling or characteristic of a painter; artistic.

      • He has a paintery brain.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA