Meaning & use
still life
A painting or drawing of an arrangement of inanimate objects, such as fruit or flowers.
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The gallery displayed a still life of pears and a ceramic jug.
She practiced painting with a simple still life of bottles on a table.
A note on using this word
'Still life' is written as two words, taking a hyphen only when used as a compound adjective, as in 'a still-life painting.'
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