Crossword clues for silverpoint
WordNet
n. a drawing made with on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries)
Wikipedia
Silverpoint (one of several types of metalpoint) is a traditional drawing technique first used by medieval scribes on manuscripts.
Usage examples of "silverpoint".
The tide was out, and in the light before the sunrise the wet sands and the rocks which ran out across them on either side of the cove had something of the look of a silverpoint drawing.
Round and perfect, Luna blazed in the sky, and the wolf, etched in silverpoint, serenaded it.
As she smoothed on face cream, her eyes fell on the framed silverpoint drawing Nauman had made of her at Christmas.
It was the right book, and she stood for a while, looking from drawing to stone, observing how cleverly he had adapted the details which were so easy to draw with a silverpoint to the much more difficult work in obdurate stone.
Huddled in the frost-stiffened folds of their blankets, men slept as they could, or shivered on watch under silverpoint, glittering starlight.