painture

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noun

The art of painting.

OriginMiddle English peynture ← Old French peinture ← Late Latin *pinctūra →
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Meanings

nounpainture (countable and uncountable, plural paintures)

plural paintures

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe art of painting.

    To the next realm she stretched her sway, For Painture I near adjoining lay

    1694, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew
  2. countableobsoleteA painting.

    And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.

    1900, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (version in modern spelling)

Origin

  1. Late Latin*pinctūra
  2. Old Frenchpeinture
  3. Middle Englishpeynture
  4. Englishpainture

Inherited from Middle English peynture, from Old French peinture, from Late Latin *pinctūra; by surface analysis, paint + -ure. See paint and compare picture.

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APA

painture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/painture

MLA

“painture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/painture. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “painture,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/painture.

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