Holbeinian

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1. artIn the style of Hans Holbein the younger.

   His letters to Anne translate social codes of French diplomacy, Holbeinian portraiture, and Erasmian epistolary friendship into performances of personal desire.

   2006, Seth Lerer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII, →ISBN, page 98

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   Change Thackeray's spirited devil into a dancing skeleton with an answering grin, and you have a picture that would fit into a medieval, or Holbeinian, Dance of Death.

   2000, Siegbert Salomon Prawer, W.M. Thackeray's European Sketch Books, →ISBN, page 127

   Mercator replaced Ziegler's stiff, artificial rivers and lakes with fluid, Holbeinian waters, while the Bavarian's sea - so tormented and heavily worked that it always threatened to inundate the land -- was substituted by patches of placid hatching cruised by ships and improbable fish.

   2010, Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet, →ISBN

2. mathematicsIncluding every edge exactly once and where, for all x and y, the edges (x,y) and (y,x) have opposite parities.

   a Holbeinian circuit