black-figure

[blak-fig-yer]

black-fig·ure

[blak-fig-yer]
adjective
pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
Also, black·fig·ured.
Compare red-figure.


Origin:
1890–95
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Black-figure is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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