Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Genre or still-life pictures, including all subjects of a trivial, coarse, or common kind: so called in contempt.
Wiktionary
- n. art The painting, or literary description, of mean or sordid things; especially still-life or genre painting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.
Examples
“The artists of this period were under the necessity of attracting attention by novelty and variety; thus rhyparography, and the lower classes of art, attained the ascendency, and became the characteristic styles of the period.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rhyparography’.
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from phrontistery.info
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Most Obscure Words
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Understanding thunderstorms
a tri-ing exerciselimb in all space, freshold, stand in wave, ecleticstorm, thisarray, earwitness, foolscape, florilegium, gleam-on, regleam, rhyparography, woolfell and 1 more...
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out forms
Sir Francis Bacon: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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good words if used sparingly
Words that I don't want to forget, but that require caution in their use.
velleity, fealty, peripetia, bellwether, commonweal, imponderable, solipsism, soubrette, timbre, effulgent, placate, deplorable and 56 more...
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Bebop tunes I want to write
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pavonine painting or description of mean or sordid things; still-life or genre painting. Nov 28, 2007