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Definition of Limners
1. limner [n] - See also: limner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limners
Literary usage of Limners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"Poets are limners of another kind, To copy out ideas in the mind ; DRYDEN.
Words are the paint by which their thoughts are shown, And nature is their object ..."
2. Heirlooms in Miniatures by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Emily Drayton Taylor (1898)
"SOME LATER limners A THOUGH in the first quarter of the century miniature painting
reached a degree of excellence that has never since been equalled, ..."
3. Old Mortality by Walter Scott (1878)
"... of the same colour, which fell down on each side of his face, contributed to
form such a countenance as limners love to paint and ladies to look upon. ..."
4. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"... endeavoured to represent the figures of saints and scriptural subjects, which
had been so long only produced by the limners of the monasteries, ..."
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