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Limning
Limning meaning
present participle and gerund of limn
Synonyms of Limning
Example sentences (4)
With his familiar hunch, his knees are bent as he examines the decay limning through his fingers.
Her upper body flows in arcs: Her softly curved right hand under her chin echoes the position of her left hand, draped over her leg — together the two arms limning an off-center, tilted heart shape.
Bätschmann & Griener, 194. At the end of the 16th century, the miniature portraitist Nicholas Hilliard spoke in his treatise Arte of Limning of his debt to Holbein: "Holbein's manner have I ever imitated, and hold it for the best".
The twelve or so certain miniatures by Holbein that survive reveal his mastery of "limning", as the technique was called.