| 单词 | painture |
| 释义 | † painture Obs.
Forms: 3–8 pein-, 4–5 peyn-, 5 paynture, -toure, 5–8 painture.
[ME. a. OF. peinture, painture (11th c. in Godef.) = Pr., Sp., It. pintura (beside Pr. pictura, It. pittura):—late L. *pinctūra for pictūra painting, f. pingĕre, pict-, pinct- to paint: see -ure. Painture is thus ult. a doublet of picture.]
1. The action or art of painting, or depicting objects in colours; style of painting. Also fig.
c1386Chaucer Doctor's T. 33 With swich peynture She peynted hath this noble creature. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xxxvii. (1495) 879 The Egypciens fonde fyrst paynture. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 118 The next peece, not of his Rhetorique, or Poetry, but of his Painture. 1668Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy 59 Shall that excuse the ill Painture or designment of them? a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 482 The primitive Christians abhorred Painture. [1846Landor Wks. (1876) IV. 226 We have suffered to drop away from us the beautiful and commodious word..painture.]
2. That which is painted; painting, pictorial work; a painting, picture.
a1225Ancr. R. 242 Al nis bute ase a scheadewe—al nis bute ase a peinture. 1382Wyclif 1 Chron. vi. 29 He made in hem cherubyn, and palmes, and dyuerse peynturis. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 29 To fordo þe paynture and þe ymages þat ware purtraid on þe walles. 1496Dives & Paup. i. iii. 34/2 The lewde man sholde use his bookes, that is ymagery and paynture. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Y ij b, The whiche paintures were sayed to bee of the handy warke of the expert Appelles. 1668Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy 69 The shadowings of Painture..being to cause the rounding of it.
3. A substance used in painting; a paint, pigment.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 387 Þey wolde..make..dyuers figures..and peynte hym wiþ ynke oþer wiþ oþir peynture and colour. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 193 Graued and ourned with gold and othere gay peinturis. 1620Thomas Lat. Dict., Atramentum... Inke, blacke painture. |
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