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Definition of Burinist
1. n. One who works with the burin.
Definition of Burinist
1. Noun. One who works with the burin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Burinist
1. an engraver [n -S] - See also: engraver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burinist
Literary usage of Burinist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foreign Quarterly Review (1841)
"In their first attempts, the artists endeavoured to make their plates as nearly
as possible resemble those by the burinist; and even so late as the ..."
2. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1834)
"... but the boldness of that masterly burinist is not to be sought in these
unrivalled performances— a sharpness, a purity and delicacy of tooling which we ..."
3. The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1891)
"Who ever heard of a burinist taking his plate out into the fields, or a wood-engraver
his block ? Etching is the only form of engraving which has ever been ..."
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