What does limón mean?
Limón means (transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate..
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/lɪm/ · verb
(transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate..
Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.
Then the Painter, according to the pattern of ſome living thing, portraieth [draweth out] the picture groſly; afterward he reſembleth it to the life, and with his pencil limneth it with different painting colors.
Read books which are in french and Latin, for so you may retain and increase your knowledge in Latin: some times draw and limn and practise perspective.
Thou limnest well, / Were I to paint, I should shew you happy.
This cupboard, Holy of Holies, held the cloud / Of his soul writ and limned; […]
[S]he laughs—in golden tones; she sleeps—like a fragrant lily; she dresses—limning her eyebrows like those of the silkworm moth.
As he looked up at the rim of the hole, faintly limned in the moonlight, he mused that this searching feeling of his was perhaps jealousy.
In telling these people's stories Mr. [Robert Olen] Butler draws upon the same gifts of empathy and insight, the same ability to limn an entire life in a couple of pages, […]
Use limón when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Limón means (transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate..
Common synonyms include depict, enlimn, delineate, outline.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.
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