| fine art | |
| —n | |
| 1. | art produced chiefly for its aesthetic value, as opposed to applied art |
| 2. | (often plural) Also called: beaux arts any of the fields in which such art is produced, such as painting, sculpture, and engraving |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Art that is produced more for beauty or spiritual significance than for physical utility. Painting, sculpture, and music are fine arts.