Easel
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈiː.z(ə)l/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Easel is a noun meaning An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.
Meaning
An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.
Example Sentences
Chevalet, (chaſſis de bois ſur lequel les Peintres poſent leurs Tableaux quand ils travaillent) a Painter's Eaſel.
It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.
Three sons … three! And not one sees fit to throw in with the old man. No … we have an easel painter, a stuntman, and a … a …
[H]is constant advice to students was to copy nature, and if they wished to draw a tree well, to place their easels in a field, and copy the tree exactly as it stood before them.
Word Forms
- easels
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include enlarger, tripod, stretcher, canvas, frame, desk.
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