bench easel

noun

A bench with an upright board or easel attached at one end, allowing an artist to straddle the bench while working.

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Meanings

nounbench easel (plural bench easels)

plural bench easels

  1. A bench with an upright board or easel attached at one end, allowing an artist to straddle the bench while working.

    2013, Shelli Alford, "Tornados in Liberace Workshop," Travelingartist.net, 2 April, 2013, http://www.thetravelingartist.net/2013/04/02/tornados-in-liberace-workshop/ Surprisingly this very tall man worked on a bench easel.

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    Canvases stood on two homemade bench-easels.

    1944, Emily Carr, “Studio”, in The House of All Sorts
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