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word picture
noun
- a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid:
She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
word picture
noun
- a verbal description, esp a vivid one
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Word History and Origins
Origin of word picture1
First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences
He had already had a description from Jacques Sabatier, but a word-picture from another source might make the man clearer to him.
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Charcot's scheme of word-picture combination: 1, Auditory image.
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Let me take you by a brief word picture to Italy, the first home of the pergola as we see it hereabouts today.
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Her fragile body, he relates in the graphic word picture he drew, enveloped her spirit but as a gauzy veil.
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He painted a vivid word picture of the distressing conditions under which soda was produced in the old-time factories.
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