painting knife

noun

An artist's tool with a flexible steel blade with trowel-like tip, used to apply paint to the canvas.

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Meanings

nounpainting knife (plural painting knives)

plural painting knives

  1. An artist's tool with a flexible steel blade with trowel-like tip, used to apply paint to the canvas.
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