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painterliness
Variant of painterly
adjective
- Now Rare of or characteristic of a painter
- characterized by those qualities related to a painter's techniques in applying colors in masses, esp. with a thick, rough surface texture, as distinguished from linear qualities that emphasize outline and contour
Related Forms:
- painterliness noun
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