painting
/ˈpeɪ.nɪŋ/ noun A1- An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint. · The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings.
- The action of applying paint to a surface. · The outside of the old house would benefit from some painting.
- The same activity as an art form. · Some artists, like Michelangelo, excel in both painting and sculpture.
Plural paintings
From the library
Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under pretence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion’s skin to assume that of the woodman; then, with his hands covered with dirt, his hair darkened by means of a leaden comb, his complexion embrowned with a preparation for which one of his old comrades had given him the recipe, he intended, by following the wooded districts, to reach the nearest frontier, walking by night and sleeping in the day in the forests and quarries, and only entering inhabited regions to buy a loaf from time to time.
“That painting was by Jean Baptiste Greuze.”
What in the whole wide world can be the connection between this dead painting man and the affair at Birlstone?”
Beauchamp turned to look at some paintings.
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