See easel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1702, [Abel] Boyer, “CHEVALET”, in Dictionnaire royal, François et Anglois. Le Francois tiré des dictionnaires de Richelet, Furetiere, Tachard, de l'Academie Françoise, & des Remarques de Vaugelas, Menage & Bouhours. Devisé en deux parties, volume I, The Hague: Chez Adrian Moetjens, Marchand Libraire près la Cour, à la Librairie Françoise, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1772 December 10, [Joshua Reynolds], A Discourse, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Distribution of Prizes, December 10, 1772, London: Printed by W. Griffin, printer; and sold by T[homas] Davies, bookseller to the Royal Academy, published 1773, →OCLC, page 10:",
"text": "His [Raphael's] eaſel works ſtand in a lower degree of eſtimation; for though he continually, till the day of his death, embelliſhed his works more and more with the addition of theſe lower ornaments, which entirely make the merit of ſome; yet he never arrived at ſuch perfection as to make him an object of imitation.",
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"text": "[O]ur little craft [a canoe] carried several packs of Indian dresses and other articles, which I had purchased of the Indians; and also my canvass and easel, and our culinary articles, which were few and simple; […]",
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"ref": "1991 December, Paul Chadwick, “American Christmas [from Within Our Reach]”, in Concrete: Short Stories, 1990–1995, Milwaukie, Or.: Dark Horse Comics, published 1996, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]): [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45:",
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"ea‧sel"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "chevalet"
}
],
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"Rhymes:English/iːzəl",
"Rhymes:English/iːzəl/2 syllables",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Cornish translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Kazakh translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Latvian translations",
"Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Samogitian translations",
"Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"en:Painting"
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{
"ref": "1702, [Abel] Boyer, “CHEVALET”, in Dictionnaire royal, François et Anglois. Le Francois tiré des dictionnaires de Richelet, Furetiere, Tachard, de l'Academie Françoise, & des Remarques de Vaugelas, Menage & Bouhours. Devisé en deux parties, volume I, The Hague: Chez Adrian Moetjens, Marchand Libraire près la Cour, à la Librairie Françoise, →OCLC:",
"text": "Chevalet, (chaſſis de bois ſur lequel les Peintres poſent leurs Tableaux quand ils travaillent) a Painter's Eaſel.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1772 December 10, [Joshua Reynolds], A Discourse, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Distribution of Prizes, December 10, 1772, London: Printed by W. Griffin, printer; and sold by T[homas] Davies, bookseller to the Royal Academy, published 1773, →OCLC, page 10:",
"text": "His [Raphael's] eaſel works ſtand in a lower degree of eſtimation; for though he continually, till the day of his death, embelliſhed his works more and more with the addition of theſe lower ornaments, which entirely make the merit of ſome; yet he never arrived at ſuch perfection as to make him an object of imitation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1817 May, “Biographical Sketches of Eminent Painters. George Morland, (Concluded from Our Last.)”, in La Belle Assemblée or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine, Addressed Particularly to the Ladies, volume XV (New Series), number 97, London: Printed by and for John Bell, proprietor of this magazine, and of the Weekly Messenger, Clare-Court, Drury-Lane, published 1 June 1817, →OCLC, page 205, column 2:",
"text": "[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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1841, Geo[rge] Catlin, “Letter—No. 10. Mandan Village, Upper Missouri.”, in Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. … Written During Eight Years' Travel amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. In 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39. In Two Volumes, with Four Hundred Illustrations, Carefully Engraved from His Original Paintings, London: Published by the author, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly; printed by Tosswill and Myers, 24, Budge Row, →OCLC, page 66:",
"text": "[O]ur little craft [a canoe] carried several packs of Indian dresses and other articles, which I had purchased of the Indians; and also my canvass and easel, and our culinary articles, which were few and simple; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1991 December, Paul Chadwick, “American Christmas [from Within Our Reach]”, in Concrete: Short Stories, 1990–1995, Milwaukie, Or.: Dark Horse Comics, published 1996, →ISBN:",
"text": "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 …",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]): [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45:",
"text": "It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas."
],
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"upright",
"upright"
],
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"frame",
"frame#Noun"
],
[
"leg",
"leg"
],
[
"display",
"display"
],
[
"support",
"support"
],
[
"artist",
"artist"
],
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"canvas",
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]
}
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ˈi.zəl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːzəl"
}
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥāmil",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "حَامِل"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "nkarakal",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "նկարակալ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stativ",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "статив"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cavallet"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hēibǎn jià",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "黑板架"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "畫架"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàjià",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "画架"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "margh skrifa"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stojan"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "staffeli"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "schildersezel"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ezel"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "stablo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "teline"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "for painting",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "maalausteline"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chevalet"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cabalete"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Staffelei"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kavaléto",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "καβαλέτο"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kan tsiyur",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "כן ציור"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "festőállvány"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "trönur"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "tresto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cavalletto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "treppiedi"
},
{
"alt": "がか",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gaka",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "画架"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "īzeru",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "イーゼル"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "molbert",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "мольберт"
},
{
"alt": "畫架",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hwaga",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "화가"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vāra"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "molberts"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "molbertas"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "staffeli"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "staffeli"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xarak",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "خرک"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "se-pâye-ye naqqâši",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "سهپایه نقاشی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sztaluga"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cavalete"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "șevalet"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "molʹbért",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мольбе́рт"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podstávka",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "подста́вка"
},
{
"code": "sgs",
"lang": "Samogitian",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "muolberts"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dealbh-thaic"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caballete"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "atril"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "staffli"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "kabalyete"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "şövale"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "molʹbert",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мольберт"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidstavka",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "підставка"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"word": "giá vẽ"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "upright frame for displaying or supporting something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "îsl"
}
],
"word": "easel"
}
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