word painting
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Noun[edit]
word painting (countable and uncountable, plural word paintings)
- A visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.
- The act of writing such a piece.
- 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 1:
- Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".
- (music) Program music, or the process of composing it.