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Someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail
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miniaturist
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An artist who paints miniature figures or scenes. 2 A person who creates or collects miniature figurines (such as dolls).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miniaturist \Min"i*a*tur`ist\, n. A painter of miniatures.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"maker of miniatures," 1800, from miniature (n.) + -ist .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . ▪ Note also the 1709 portrait of the miniaturist Karl Bruni by Jan Kupecký. ▪ What this set gives us is primarily ...
Usage examples of miniaturist.
I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.
Khalid: some fugitive gene out of forgotten antiquity miraculously surfacing in him after a dormancy of centuries, the eye of a Gandharan sculptor, of a Rajput architect, a Guiarati miniaturist coming to the fore in him after passing through all those generations of the peasantry.
Khalid: some fugitive gene out of forgotten antiquity miraculously surfacing in him after a dormancy of centuries, the eye of a Gandharan sculptor, of a Rajput architect, a Gujerati miniaturist coming to the fore in him after passing through all those generations of the peasantry.
This was too perfect an image of him: the contemplative, staring at the sun, his every pore and pucker demanding the attention of Jaffe's aching retina, as if his portrait had been painted by a thousand miniaturists, all of whom had been granted an inch of their subject and with brushes bearing a single hair rendered their portion in nauseating detail.
Arnfeld a somewhat grisly sense of assurance that the three miniaturists who were working on the procedure (so calmly, it would seem—so calmly) were condemned to death as firmly as her husband was in case of—anything untoward.