Painterly

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Painterly \Paint"er*ly\ (p[=a]nt"[~e]r*l[y^]), a.
     Like a painter's work. [Obs.] "A painterly glose of a
     visage." --Sir P. Sidney.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  painterly
       adj : having qualities unique to the art of painting