Meaning & use
Limned
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Depicted or portrayed something in painting, drawing, or vivid written description.
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The novelist limned the small town with such detail that readers felt they had visited it.
The portrait limned every wrinkle and expression of the old sailor's face.
A note on using this word
From the same root as 'illuminate,' 'limn' originally referred to decorating manuscripts with gold and bright colors before broadening to mean 'portray.'
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