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oil painting

noun

  1. the art or technique of painting with oil colors.
  2. a painting executed in oil colors.


oil painting

noun

  1. a picture painted with oil paints
  2. the art or process of painting with oil paints
  3. he's no oil painting informal.
    he is not good-looking
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • oil painter noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of oil painting1

First recorded in 1775–85
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The display at The Crypt Gallery in Seaford is entitled Back Story and showcases the 50-year-old's determination to stand for long enough to create landscape oil paintings, which he says aided his recovery.

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So let’s get the oil painting for the album cover, let’s go to Paris for a music video, let’s commission a Rodarte dress.

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The ending of “Uncle Vanya,” a theatrical oil painting of human endurance, is exquisitely executed.

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Although their next home might look different, its predecessor won’t be forgotten thanks to the oil painting they now have in their possession.

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For a year, she had been having furniture, vases, lamps and oil paintings of the ocean delivered to the couple’s San Francisco loft, where they had little room for them.

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