Meaning & use
Limning
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Depicting or portraying something in painting, drawing, or vivid description.
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The novelist excels at limning small-town life with wry, precise detail.
The artist spent the afternoon limning the harbor in watercolor.
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 "to portray."
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