easel
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zəl noun
1.
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
2.
Also called masking frame. Photography. a frame, often with adjustable masks, used to hold photographic paper flat and control borders when printing enlargements.
Origin:
1625–35; < Dutch ezel ass, easel (cognate with German Esel, Old English esel ass) < Vulgar Latin *asilus, for Latin asellus, diminutive of asinus ass1
1625–35; < Dutch ezel ass, easel (cognate with German Esel, Old English esel ass) < Vulgar Latin *asilus, for Latin asellus, diminutive of asinus ass1
Related forms
ea·seled, adjective
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| a frame, usually in the form of an upright tripod, used for supporting or displaying an artist's canvas, blackboard, etc | |
| [C17: from Dutch ezel | |
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Word Origin & History
easel
1590s, from Du. ezel "easel," originally "ass," from M.Du. esel, from L. asinus "ass" (see ass (1)); the comparison being of loading a burden on a donkey and propping up a painting or canvas on a wooden stand.
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Example sentences
He had a stove and a refrigerator and an easel and he would be in his underwear studying that canvas.
The novel is an aesthetic rendering that would portray a public figure interpretively no less than the portrait on an easel.
Mounted on rails, the camera faced a rail-mounted easel holding the print paper.
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