Vocabulary
French words and expressions dealing with the arts:
- peintre — painter
- peinture à l'huile — oil painting
- tableau — painting
- toile — canvas
- gravure — print
- dessin — drawing
- aquarelle — watercolor
- croquis — sketch
- ébauche — draft
- crayon — pencil
- paysage — landscape
- nature morte — still life
- la peinture d'histoire — History painting, see Hierarchy of genres
- tapisserie – tapestry
- vitrail – stained glass
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Famous quotes containing the word vocabulary:
“[T]here is no breaking out of the intentional vocabulary by explaining its members in other terms.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“I have a vocabulary all my own. I “pass the time” when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)