单词 | rhyparographer |
释义 | rhyparographern. A person who paints or writes about distasteful or sordid subjects. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > genre painting > painter rhyparographer1656 rhyparograph1662 rhyparographist1891 vedutista1962 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Rhyparographer..Ryparographer. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Rhyparographer, a writer (or painter) of base trifles. 1694 P. A. Motteux in tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Prol. sig. A6v That [office] of Puny Riparographer, or Riffraff-scribler of the Sect of Pyrricus. 1885 Sat. Rev. 23 May 675 Our bodies..are ‘vile’, and he or she who paints them is a Rhyparographer. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lvii. 242 The rhyparographer Pyroeicus. 1924 J. B. Cabell Straws & Prayer-bks. i. 40 Mr. Theodore Dreiser and Mr. Sinclair Lewis, who can derive..comfort from considering persons even less pleasantly situated than themselves..and so turn rhyparographer, and write ‘realism’. 1958 N. J. Jacobs Naming-day in Eden xi. 78 When he fell and lay groveling in the dust, rundown and half crushed, these rhyparographers (portrayers of low life) detect eccentricities and shortcomings. 1998 Renaissance Q. 51 262 A matching discussion of Aertsen as a ‘Rhyparographer’, that is, a practitioner of the paradoxical encomium in his still-life paintings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656 |
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