oil painting
Noun
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Noun
oil painting
- A painting done with oil paints.
- (uncountable) The art of painting with oil paints.
- (Britain, humorous, litotes, chiefly in the negative) A physically attractive person.
- 1920 Henry St. John Cooper Sunny Ducrow, Putnam's, p.117:
- "Very lovely!" he said, staring her straight in the face.
- "You needn't try and be funny!" she said. "If you mean me, I'm no oil-painting, and I know it!"
- 2007 "Virginia Trioli talks to George Brandis and Wayne Swan ↗" Lateline ABC (Australia) 14 September 2007:
- Wayne Swan: All I can say is that she's a much more attractive person than the Prime Minister.
- George Brandis: You're not exactly an oil painting yourself, Wayne.
- 1920 Henry St. John Cooper Sunny Ducrow, Putnam's, p.117:
- Italian: pittura a olio
- Portuguese: pintura a óleo, óleo
- French: peinture a l'huile
- German: Ölgemälde
- Portuguese: pintura a óleo
- Russian: жи́вопись масляный
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