PAINTERLY


Meaning of PAINTERLY in English

/payn"teuhr lee/ , adj.

1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a painter.

2. Fine Arts. characterized by qualities of color, stroke, or texture perceived as distinctive to the art of painting, esp. the rendering of forms and images in terms of color or tonal relations rather than of contour or line.

[ 1580-90; PAINTER 1 + -LY ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .