paintery

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where paintings are done.
    — Now the lie of these involved waters becomes plain -- you can see the parklike Diurgården island to the east with its marvellous open-air Skansen museum of all the old village architectures of the country, with its wild riding woods and its leisurely villa-palaces built for an ampler age, and also what must be the most spacious studio a private painter has ever attained, the enormous royal paintery at Waldermarsudde of fin-de-siecle Prince Eugen, friend of Zorn and devotee on a truly royal scale of his art.
  2. The act, process, or result of painting.
    — Domenichino's Jerome, surpasses in worth all the rest, and it is here that the ambitious artist loves to spend his day in improving his taste, and in increasing his admiration of these chefs d'ceuvre of the greatest paintery, since the restoration !
形容词 adj.
  1. With the appearance of having been painted. informal
    — How paintery would you like the image?
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a painter; artistic. informal
    — He has a paintery brain.

词形变化

painteries plural more paintery comparative most paintery superlative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English paint
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English paintery
From paint + -ery.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English painter
English -y
English paintery
From painter + -y.
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