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pleinairism en · NOUN

Etymology

From en plein air + -ism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The practice of painting outdoors, in the open.
   • Some Americans may have concluded that such passionate pleinairism was unsustainable; it may have seemed too chaotic, insubstantial, repetitious, or ugly. 2017, Kathleen A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, page 214:

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