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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
word painting en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.
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(countable, uncountable) The act of writing such a piece.
Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".
1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 1:
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(countable, uncountable) Program music, or the process of composing it.
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