Etymology

pointillism

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Today it means: The use of many small areas of color to construct an image. Full definition →

French pointillisme
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  1. French · borrowed frompointillisme
  2. English todaypointillism

From French pointillisme, from pointiller (“to dot, to mark with points”), from point (“dot, point”).

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