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Word Meanings - PINACOTHECA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A picture gallery.

Related words: (words related to PINACOTHECA)

  • PICTURESQUISH
    Somewhat picturesque.
  • PICTURER
    One who makes pictures; a painter. Fuller.
  • PICTURE
    1. The art of painting; representation by painting. Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced
  • PICTURESQUE
    Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as,
  • GALLERY
    A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850. (more info) galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal hall, banquetting hall; cf.
  • PICTURED
    Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
  • DEPICTURE
    To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
  • LIVING PICTURE
    A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
  • IMPICTURED
    Pictured; impressed. Spenser.
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • MOVING PICTURE
    A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision,
  • OVERPICTURE
    To surpass nature in the picture or representation of. "O'erpicturing that Venus." Shak.

 

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