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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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Limner
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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| limn (lɪm) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to represent in drawing or painting |
| 2. | archaic to describe in words |
| 3. | an obsolete word for illuminate |
| [C15: from Old French enluminer to illumine (a manuscript) from Latin inlūmināre to brighten, from lūmen light] | |
| limner | |
| —n | |
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