See cave painting on Wiktionary
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"text": "I understand from Paṇḍita Baghavánlál, who lately visited the caves, that the painting and writings in these caves are fast going to decay. Those at Ajaṇṭhá are more durable, whereas the Bagh cave paintings will, it is feared, be entirely obliterated after some years.",
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"ref": "1998, Don Brothwell, Patricia Brothwell, “Sugars”, in Food in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diet of Ancient Peoples, expanded edition, Baltimore, Md., London: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 72:",
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"text": "Rooted in precinematic cultural activities such as walking and traveling, on the one hand, and in all forms of visual representation – including cave painting – on the other, the compound term [\"mobilized virtual gaze\"] is meant to describe forms of scopic pleasure that travel \"in an imaginary flânerie through an imaginary elsewhere and an imaginary 'elsewhen'.'\"",
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"ref": "2002, Christon I. Archer, John R. Ferris, Holger H. Herwig, Timothy H. E. Travers, “Introduction: The Origins of Warfare”, in World History of Warfare, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 1:",
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"text": "I understand from Paṇḍita Baghavánlál, who lately visited the caves, that the painting and writings in these caves are fast going to decay. Those at Ajaṇṭhá are more durable, whereas the Bagh cave paintings will, it is feared, be entirely obliterated after some years.",
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"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"word": "आदिमानवांची चित्रकला"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hulemaleri"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hòlemåleri"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "malarstwo jaskiniowe"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "malarstwo naskalne"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pintura rupestre"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peščernaja živopisʹ",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пещерная живопись"
},
{
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"roman": "guhā situwam",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"word": "ගුහා සිතුවම්"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"word": "jamske poslikave"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pintura rupestre"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "grottmålning"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "kukai ōviyam",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"word": "குகை ஓவியம்"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"word": "mağara ressamlığı"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pečernyj žyvopys",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "печерний живопис"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"word": "غار نقاشی"
},
{
"code": "vep",
"lang": "Veps",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"word": "kall'voimujupirdand"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; an individual painting of this type",
"word": "tranh hang động"
}
],
"word": "cave painting"
}
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