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limner

/lim-ner/US // ˈlɪm nər //

肢残人,肢体语言,肢解人,肢体语言学

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who paints or draws.
    • : an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.
    • : a person who describes or depicts in words: an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.
    • : an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.

Examples

  • "Do you know, I can never get over the idea that 'limner' is something immoral—indecent," said Val.

  • "In truth is it," said that good and learned Italian father who had brought the limner from Pisa.

  • Such a story of details is the filling up of a scant outline with the colors of an unfaithful limner.

  • "That is Wat the limner," quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.

  • No limner's hand ever drew a more faithful picture than the one I have of her even now engraved on the tablet of my heart.