limner

[ lim-ner ]

noun
  1. a person who paints or draws.

  2. an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.

  1. a person who describes or depicts in words: an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.

  2. an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.

Origin of limner

1
1350–1400; Middle English lymnour, lymynour;see limn, -or2, -er1

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How to use limner in a sentence

  • "Do you know, I can never get over the idea that 'limner' is something immoral—indecent," said Val.

    The Open Question | Elizabeth Robins
  • "In truth is it," said that good and learned Italian father who had brought the limner from Pisa.

    A Legend of Reading Abbey | Charles MacFarlane
  • Such a story of details is the filling up of a scant outline with the colors of an unfaithful limner.

  • "That is Wat the limner," quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.

    The White Company | Arthur Conan Doyle
  • No limner's hand ever drew a more faithful picture than the one I have of her even now engraved on the tablet of my heart.

    Constance Sherwood | Lady Georgiana Fullerton