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lim⋅ner
[lim-ner] 
nər
–noun
| 1. | a person who paints or draws. |
| 2. | an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training. |
| 3. | a person who describes or depicts in words: an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers. |
| 4. | an illuminator of medieval manuscripts. |
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| limn (lĭm) tr.v. limned, limn·ing (lĭm'nĭng), limns
[Middle English limnen, to illuminate (a manuscript), probably alteration (influenced by limnour, illustrator) of luminen, from Old French luminer, from Latin lūmināre, to illuminate, adorn, from lūmen, lūmin-, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.] limn'er (lĭm'nər) n. |
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