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Pictor
[ pik-ter ]
noun
- the Painter, a southern constellation between Dorado and Carina.
Pictor
/ ˈpɪktə /
noun
- a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Dorado and Carina
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Pictor1
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Example Sentences
How vivid and personal is, for instance, "Pictor Ignotus," one of the earlier poems!
Livy in general adheres to the epoch of Cato, though he sometimes follows that of Fabius Pictor.
Fabius Pictor, the oldest of our historians, adds, that such was the number of those who were able to bear arms.
In the first book of Fabius Pictor, we have the form of words which the supreme pontiff is to repeat when he takes a virgin.
Some of the faint stars—for instance, the galloping star in Pictor—are indeed nearer to us than many of the brighter ones.
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