tonalise

present singular third person tonalises · participle present tonalising · participle past tonalised · past tonalised

1. paintingartTo view or create in terms of tonalism.

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   With that, he stood rasping his beard, and frowning at her, and going back a few paces to frown and peer at her from this and that angle. Cora knew what that meant, and stood to be tonalised, relieving self-consciousness in her muscles by stretching and relaxing, and preening up her breasts in those cat-like turnings and twistings of her body that seemed to make an ostentatious exhibition of its graces because of her affectation of unawareness in being looked at.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178