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illustrational en · ADJ

Etymology

From illustration + -al.

Meanings

1. Serving to illustrate.
   • MARLèNE MOCQUET: RECENT PAINTINGS This young French painter presents small, vaporous, psychologically charged canvases — occupied by hapless, mostly hybrid beings — that might be called illustrational, not the least for the way their titles narrate very specific events. 2007 August 17, “Art Listings”, in New York Times:

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