painting
painting Lexical Profile
painting Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A physical picture, artwork, or decorative composition created by applying colored pigments or paint onto a solid surface such as canvas, wood, paper, or plaster.
"The museum recently acquired a seventeenth-century oil painting depicting a Dutch harbor at sunset."
The fine art, creative discipline, or practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier medium to a surface to express aesthetic, conceptual, or representational ideas.
"She studied Renaissance painting and sculpture during her semester in Florence."
The work, trade, or process of coating walls, buildings, or other structures with protective or decorative paint.
"Once the drywall repairs are finished, the interior painting of the house will take about three days."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Recorded in Middle English from the 13th century, formed from the verb 'paint' (from Old French 'peindre', ultimately from Latin 'pingere' meaning 'to paint or embroider') combined with the noun-forming suffix '-ing'.
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