limner
a person who paints or draws.
an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.
a person who describes or depicts in words: an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.
an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.
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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 MacFarlaneSuch 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 DoyleNo 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
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