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limner

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lim⋅ner

  [lim-ner]
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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.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME lymnour, lymynour; see limn, -or 2 , -er 1
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limn   (lĭm)   
tr.v.   limned, limn·ing (lĭm'nĭng), limns

  1. To describe.

  2. To depict by painting or drawing. See Synonyms at represent.


[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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