Reverse Dictionary: PAINTING

PAINTING

ADJECTIVES
– FUCATORY relating to painting or artificial colouring … 1657 obs.


NOUNS
– BUCKEYE an inferior oil-painting, made for the picture trade or for auction rooms …1881 sl.
– CHEATER a paint roller used to apply paint (it cheats men out of hours of work) …1969 Amer. dial.
– DAUBING painting coarsely or inartistically; hence, a coarsely or badly executed painting …1654
– EASELDOM painting as a profession; the whole body of painters …1860
– FLANDERS PIECE a painting that looks good from a distance but not so good close to …L17 sl. ​
– NIGHT-PIECE a painting or picture representing a night scene …1605
– PAINT †* a painting, a picture …c1710
– PAINTMENT †* painting, adornment with colours …1597
– PAINTRY † the act or product of painting …1511
– PAINTURE † 1. that which is painted; painting, pictorial work; a painting, a picture …a1225
 2. the act or art of painting, or depicting objects in colours; style of painting …c1386
– TABLATURE † a painting; a picture …1711


VERBS
ALLIGATOR of a painting: to crack …1955 US sl.