painture

English

Etymology

French peinture. See paint and compare picture.

Noun

painture (countable and uncountable, plural paintures)

1. (obsolete) The art of painting.
   • 1694, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew:

     To the next realm she stretched her sway,
     For Painture I near adjoining lay

2. (obsolete, countable) A painting.
   • 1900, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (version in modern spelling)

     And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.

Anagrams

• pruinate

Middle English

Noun

painture

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Middle French

Noun

painture f (plural paintures)

1. Alternative form of peincture