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Orpen

[ awr-puhn ]

noun

  1. Sir William New·en·ham Montague [noo, -, uh, -n, uh, m, nyoo, -], 1878–1931, Irish painter.


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Presently the leopard permitted Orpen to rise and come away.

But we walk side by side, and yet I'm in London arguing with an imaginary Orpen; and where are you?

Mr. Orpen secured the services of Qing, who was a young man and a mighty hunter.

But Sir William Orpen was so absorbed by his work that he never uttered a word during a sitting.

For who could write a sonnet on some uncompromising pieces of realism by Mr. Rothenstein, Mr. John, or Mr. Orpen?

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